Predicting cognitive decline: A dementia risk score vs the Framingham vascular risk scores
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Predicting cognitive decline: a dementia risk score vs. the Framingham vascular risk scores.
OBJECTIVE Our aim was to compare 2 Framingham vascular risk scores with a dementia risk score in relation to 10-year cognitive decline in late middle age. METHODS Participants were men and women with mean age of 55.6 years at baseline, from the Whitehall II study, a longitudinal British cohort study. We compared the Framingham general cardiovascular disease risk score and the Framingham strok...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e31828ab370