Open AccessJoint Effect of the APOE Gene and Midlife Systolic Blood Pressure on Late-Life Cognitive Impairment
Author(s) -
Rita Peila,
Lon R. White,
Helen Petrovich,
Kamal Masaki,
G. Webster Ross,
Richard J. Havlik,
Lenore J. Launer
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/hs1201.100392
Subject(s) - medicine , blood pressure , relative risk , cardiology , body mass index , cognition , diabetes mellitus , cohort , endocrinology , confidence interval , psychiatry
The aim of this study was to explore the joint effect of the APOE epsilon4 allele and midlife systolic blood pressure (SBP) on the risk for poor cognitive function in late life.
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