Midlife cardiovascular risk factors and risk of dementia in late life

By R. Whitmer, S. Sidney, J. Selby, S. Johnston, Kristine Yaffe. Neurology, 2005

1,246 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Physiology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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In General Health Professions

1. Youfa Wang
2. Richard P. Mayeux
3. Cheryl L. Woods-Giscombe
4. Hyunjung Lim

In Physiology

1. Richard P. Mayeux
2. M. Beydoun
3. Yaakov Stern
4. Youfa Wang
5. Julie A. Schneider

In Psychiatry and Mental health

1. Richard P. Mayeux
2. C. Qiu
3. Yaakov Stern
4. Julie A. Schneider
5. Miia Kivipelto
6. E. von Strauss
7. Ellen Bialystok
8. R. Wilson

Citations in the corpus

• Epidemiologic studies of modifiable factors associated with cognition and dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis (2014, background): “For smoking status, the common referent category was non-smoking or never smoking or « never or former » whereas exposed group consisted of either « ever smokers » [78,93], or a pooled value for RR to obtain an approximate « ever smoker » category [86], or current smokers [82,88,95], or mid-life smo”
• Epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease: occurrence, determinants, and strategies toward intervention (2009, background): “High serum total cholesterol at midlife was linked to an increased risk of late-life AD.(86,87) The late-life high cholesterol in relation to dementia and AD is less clear, with studies indicating either no association or an inverse association of hypercholesterolemia with subsequent development of ”
• Epidemiology of Alzheimer Disease (2012, positive): “…the association between elevated blood pressure during middle age and late-life cognitive impairment suggest that mid-life hypertension increases the risk of late-life dementia (Kilander et al. 2000; Launer et al. 2000; Wu et al. 2003; Yamada et al. 2003; Elias et al. 2004; Whitmer et al. 2005b).”
• Inequalities in dementia incidence between six racial and ethnic groups over 14 years (2016, methodology): “Dementia case identification using ICD-9 codes has been used successfully in other publications in this population [24–27].”
• Impact of multiple pathologies on the threshold for clinically overt dementia (2017, background): “Both medical illnesses (specifically mid-life hypertension) are known risk factors for dementia [139],”