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Beer Drinking Associates with Lower Burden of Amyloid Beta Aggregation in the Brain: Helsinki Sudden Death Series.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Jul 2016
Kok Eloise H, Karppinen Toni T, Luoto Teemu, Alafuzoff Irina, Karhunen Pekka J
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BACKGROUND: Controversy surrounds the effect of alcohol consumption on the development of dementia and cognitive impairment. We investigated the association between consumption of different alcoholic beverages and β-amyloid (Aβ) aggregation in the brain, 1 of the neuropathological lesions of Alzheimer's disease. METHODS: In total, 125 males of the Helsinki Sudden Death autopsy Series were included with an age...
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