Risk factors for Alzheimer's disease
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 37 (10) , 1630
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.37.10.1630
Abstract
A case-control study was conducted to assess personal and family medical history and the appearance of Alzheimer's disease. We compared 98 men with clinically diagnosed Alzheimer's disease and 162 controls, matched by sex, year of birth, and town of residence. Family history of dementia and personal history of depression were more frequent in patients. The number of cigarettes smoked was geater in cases.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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