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Blood cadmium levels and Alzheimer’s disease mortality risk in older US adults

BACKGROUND: Cadmium, a ubiquitous environmental pollutant, exhibits potential neurotoxic risk. Although compelling evidence suggests cadmium accumulation has a role in the formation of amyloid-β plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, which are the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesi...

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Autores principales: Min, Jin-young, Min, Kyoung-bok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4908725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27301955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-016-0155-7