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Senile dementia of the Alzheimer type in the Lundby Study. II. An attempt to identify possible risk factors.
- Source :
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European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience [Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci] 1992; Vol. 241 (4), pp. 231-5. - Publication Year :
- 1992
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Abstract
- In recent years research on senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) has made progress within the field of pathology and to a certain extent in that of heredity. Within epidemiology, the search for risk factors is intensifying but the findings are still inconclusive. The present study of possible risk factors concentrates on environmental and personality factors. The total population of 2612 persons from a geographically delimited area, Lundby, two neighbouring parishes in southern Sweden, was examined in 1957 by one psychiatrist (Hagnell). A follow-up study of the same population, irrespective of domicile, was performed 15 years later, in 1972. Various precipitating as well as protective personality background factors were found to be significant for the outcome of SDAT, but no environmental factors appeared to be statistically significant in this cohort.
- Subjects :
- Aged
Alzheimer Disease epidemiology
Alzheimer Disease psychology
Brain Damage, Chronic diagnosis
Brain Damage, Chronic epidemiology
Brain Damage, Chronic psychology
Cohort Studies
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Incidence
Intelligence
Male
Personality Assessment
Risk Factors
Sweden epidemiology
Alzheimer Disease etiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0940-1334
- Volume :
- 241
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 1576179
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02190258