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Interaction between visual impairment and genetic risk of dementia and psychosis in older adults.
Age and ageing - 2 Jul 2024
Hamedani Ali G, Ellis Colin A, Ehrlich Joshua R, Willis Allison W
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BACKGROUND: Visual impairment (VI) is associated with dementia and other neuropsychiatric outcomes, but previous studies have not considered genetic sources of confounding or effect modification. METHODS: We analysed data from the Health and Retirement Study, an ongoing nationally representative survey of older US adults, a subset of whom underwent genetic testing from 2006 to 2012 (n = 13 465). Using discrete...
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