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Midlife cardiovascular risk factors, ApoE, and cognitive decline in elderly male twins

DOI

143

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0

References

1998

Year

Dorit Carmelli, Gary E. Swan, T. Reed, Barney E. Miller, P. A. Wolf, Gail P. Jarvik, Gerald D. Schellenberg
Neurology

Abstract

ApoE*4 and midlife cardiovascular risk factors may have a synergistic effect on decline in cognitive function. This effect may be due to greater vascular or degenerative damage among subjects with ApoE*4.