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Alzheimer Disease
Impact of depressive symptoms on dementia, AD may vary with gender
April 28th, 2005
The impact of depressive symptoms on dementia and Alzheimer's disease may vary with gender, according to a study from Italy. G. Dal Forno and colleagues, University Campus BioMedico, Rome, said, "Depression associates with increased risk for dementia and Alzheimer's disease (AD), although it is unclear whether it represents an actual risk factor or a prodrome. "To determine the relative hazard of premorbid depressive symptomatology for development of dementia and AD, we studied risk for incident dementia and AD over a 14-year period in 1,357 community-dwelling men and women participating in the 40-year prospective Baltimore Longitudinal Study of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-28)
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