Article
Delirium in the acute phase after stroke and the role of the apolipoprotein E gene.
The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry - 1 Oct 2013
Oldenbeuving A W, de Kort P L M, Kappelle L J, van Duijn C M, Roks G
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To study the association between the epsilon 4 allele of apolipoprotein E (APOEε4) and delirium in a stroke population. METHODS: 527 consecutive stroke patients were screened for delirium during the first week of admission with the confusion assessment method. In three hundred fifty-three patients genomic DNA isolation was available. RESULTS: The incidence of delirium after stroke in the 353 patients...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Cohort Studies
- Delirium
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Incidence
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Netherlands
- Prospective Studies
- Stroke
- Time Factors
