Traumatic brain injury as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease.
Year: 2004
Type: article
Abstract: In a recent systematic review of case control studies investigating head injury as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Fleminger et al 1 replicated the results of the meta-analysis by Mortimer et al 2 in males (OR 2.29; 95% CI from 1.47 to 2.00) but not in females (OR 0.91; 95% CI from 0.56 to1.47). Their findings support in males only an association between a history of previous head injury and the risk of developing AD, but the study could not review the relation between head injury and ApoE gene status as risk factors for …
Source: PubMed Central
Author: K A Jellinger
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1942956086