Leg length , skull circumference , and the incidence of dementia in Latin America and China ; a 10 / 66 population - based cohort study
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1. Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK 2. Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña (UNPHU), Internal Medicine Department, Geriatric Section, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 3. Psychogeriatric Unit, National Institute of Mental Health “Honorio Delgado Hideyo Noguchi”, Lima, Peru and Instituto de la Memoria y Desordenes Relacionados, Lima, Perú 4. Peking University, Institute of Mental Health. Beijing, China 5. Internal Medicine Dept., Geriatrics Program, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico 6. Facultad de Medicina Finley-Albarran, Medical University of Havana, Cuba 7. Medicine Department, Caracas University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas. 8. The Cognition and Behavior Unit, National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery of Mexico, Autonomous National University of Mexico. Delegacion Tlalpan, Mexico City. 9. Institute of Neurology “Dr. Rafael Estrada”, Havana, Cuba
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تاریخ انتشار 2017