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Alzheimer's disease and history of blood transfusion by apolipoprotein-E genotype.
Neuroepidemiology - 1 Jan 1997
O'Meara E S, Kukull W A, Schellenberg G D, Bowen J D, McCormick W C, Teri L, Pfanschmidt M, Thompson J D, Larson E B
Abstract excerpt
Some dementias, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, may result from transmissible agents. To assess the possibility of a blood-borne transmissible agent in Alzheimer's disease (AD), we compared informant-reported history of blood transfusions among 326 newly recognized probable AD cases and 330 control subjects of similar age and sex, randomly selected from the same health maintenance organization population....
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