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Red blood cell indices and anaemia as causative factors for cognitive function deficits and for Alzheimer’s disease
28 Jun 2018
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BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that low haemoglobin and anaemia are associated with poor cognition, and anaemia is known to be associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the mechanism of this risk is unknown. Here, we first seek to confirm the association between cognition and anaemia and secondly, in order to further understand the mechanism of this association, to estimate the direction of causation using...
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