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Type 2 diabetes and ethnic disparities in cognitive impairment.
Ethnicity & disease - 1 Jan 2012
Noble James M, Manly Jennifer J, Schupf Nicole, Tang Ming-Xing, Luchsinger José A
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OBJECTIVES: We explored whether ethnic differences in type 2 diabetes (T2D) explain ethnic disparities in cognitive impairment. DESIGN: Longitudinal study. SETTING: A cohort study of multiethnic community-dwelling elderly persons in Northern Manhattan, New York. PARTICIPANTS: 941 participants aged > or =65 years without prevalent cognitive impairment or dementia (CID) were followed for a median of 7.1 years. MAIN...
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