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Alzheimer's disease : life course perspectives on risk reduction /
Alzheimer's Disease: Lifecourse Perspectives on Risk Reduction summarizes the growing body of knowledge on the distribution and causes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in human populations, providing the reader with knowledge on how we define the disease and what its risk and protective factors...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier,
[2016]
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| Colección: | ClinicalKey.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The "first" case
- Clinical appearance, progression, and classification
- Epidemiologic definition of a case
- Neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease
- The threshold model of dementia
- The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease
- The incidence of Alzheimer's disease
- Survival and mortality in Alzheimer's disease
- Introduction to the analytic epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease
- Family history, genetics, and down syndrome
- Early-life factors
- Traumatic brain injury
- Cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption
- Vascular disease
- Diet
- Physical activity
- Cognitive activity
- Social engagement
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, hormone replacement therapy, and anticholinergic medications
- Prodromal markers of disease or causal risk factors? Depression, olfaction, and subjective memory complaints
- Fluid, imaging, and cognitive biomarkers
- Risk assessment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease
- Summary and recommendations.