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Risk factors for cognitive and functional change in one year in patients with Alzheimer's disease dementia from São Paulo, Brazil.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Dec 2015
de Oliveira Fabricio Ferreira, Pivi Glaucia Akiko Kamikado, Chen Elizabeth Suchi, Smith Marilia Cardoso, Bertolucci Paulo Henrique Ferreira
Abstract excerpt
Midlife cerebrovascular risk, low cognitive reserve and APOE4+ haplotypes are risk factors for Alzheimer's disease dementia (AD). We prospectively searched for factors that might be associated with yearly changes in caregiver burden, cognition, basic and instrumental functionality in 193 consecutive outpatients with late-onset AD, namely gender, APOE haplotypes, schooling, age at AD onset, marital status,...
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