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Midlife insulin resistance, APOE genotype, and late-life brain amyloid accumulation.
Neurology - 27 Mar 2018
Ekblad Laura L, Johansson Jarkko, Helin Semi, Viitanen Matti, Laine Hanna, Puukka Pauli, Jula Antti, Rinne Juha O
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OBJECTIVE: To examine whether midlife insulin resistance is an independent risk factor for brain amyloid accumulation in vivo after 15 years, and whether this risk is modulated by APOE ε4 genotype. METHODS: This observational study examined 60 elderly volunteers without dementia (mean age at baseline 55.4 and at follow-up 70.9 years, 55.5% women) from the Finnish population-based, nationwide Health2000 study with...
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