Environmental risk factors for alzheimer's disease: Their relationship to age of onset and to familial or sporadic types

A. S. Henderson; A. F. Jorm; A. E. Korten; H. Creasey; E. McCusker; G. A. Broe; W. Longley; J. C. Anthony

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Environmental risk factors for alzheimer's disease: Their relationship to age of onset and to familial or sporadic types

A. S. Henderson, A. F. Jorm, A. E. Korten, H. Creasey, E. McCusker, G. A. Broe, W. Longley, J. C. Anthony

Bloomberg School of Public Health

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Data from a case-control study of Alzheimer's disease (AD) were analysed in relation to age of onset and familial/sporadic status. The analyses were restricted to environmental exposures which might injure the brain. Later-onset AD was found to be positively associated with starvation/malnutrition and with nose-picking and negatively with analgesics, while earlier-onset was associated with physical underactivity and nervous breakdown more than 10 years before. Sporadic AD was associated with starvation/malnutrition and with head injury. These analyses merit replication in other large case-control studies of AD.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	429-436
Number of pages	8
Journal	Psychological medicine
Volume	22
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700030373
State	Published - May 1992

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