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Body mass index and cognitive function: the potential for reverse causation

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Higher late life body mass index (BMI) is unrelated to or even predicts lower risk of dementia in late-life, a phenomenon that may be explained by reverse causation due to weight loss during pre-clinical phases of dementia. We aim to investigate the association of baseline BMI...

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Autores principales: Suemoto, Claudia K., Gilsanz, Paola, Mayeda, Elizabeth R., Glymour, M. Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4758694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25953125
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2015.83