The relation of cigarette smoking to incident Alzheimer's disease in a biracial urban community populationNeelum T Aggarwal
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Armour Academic Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neuroepidemiology 26:140-6. 2006
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- Nursing home placement, day care use, and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease
Robert S Wilson
Alzheimer s Disease Center, Institute for Health Aging, Department of Neurological Sciences, College of Nursing, Rush University Medical Center, 600 S Paulina St, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:910-5. 2007
..The aim of this study was to examine the associations of day care use and nursing home placement with the rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease...
- Motor dysfunction in mild cognitive impairment and the risk of incident Alzheimer disease
Neelum T Aggarwal
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Neurol 63:1763-9. 2006
..Little is known about motor function in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and its relation to the risk of Alzheimer disease (AD)...
The association of magnetic resonance imaging measures with cognitive function in a biracial population sampleNeelum T Aggarwal
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, 600 S Paulina Ave, Ste 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Neurol 67:475-82. 2010
..White matter hyperintensity volume (WMHV), cerebral infarcts, and total brain volume (TBV) are associated with cognitive function, but few studies have examined these associations in the general population or whether they differ by race...
- Characteristics of MR infarcts associated with dementia and cognitive function in the elderly
Neelum T Aggarwal
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA Neelum_T_Aggarwal rush edu
Neuroepidemiology 38:41-7. 2012
..Little information exists on the simultaneous effects of magnetic resonance (MR) infarct characteristics, that may increase the likelihood of dementia or lower cognitive function in community populations...
- Biracial population study of mortality in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease
Robert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 600 S Paulina Ave, Ste 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Neurol 66:767-72. 2009
..To assess mortality associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD) among older African Americans and whites from an urban community...
- Cognitive decline and survival in Alzheimer's disease
Robert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21:356-62. 2006
..To test the association of rate of cognitive decline, an indicator of the severity of the underlying disease process, with risk of death in Alzheimer's disease (AD)...
- The apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele and incident Alzheimer's disease in persons with mild cognitive impairment
Neelum T Aggarwal
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612 3872, USA
Neurocase 11:3-7. 2005
..02, 2.63). There was a marginally significant reduction in the effect of epsilon4 in older compared to younger participants (p=.053). The results suggest that possession of an epsilon4 allele does increase risk of AD in persons with MCI...
- Use of home-based formal services by adult day care clients with Alzheimer's disease
Kimberly A Skarupski
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, 1645 W Jackson, Chicago, IL, USA
Home Health Care Serv Q 27:217-39. 2008
..To explore the association between adult day care (ADC) attendance and utilization of home-based formal services among people with Alzheimer's Disease (AD)...
- The Minority Aging Research Study: ongoing efforts to obtain brain donation in African Americans without dementia
Lisa L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 600 S Paulina, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Curr Alzheimer Res 9:734-45. 2012
..The implications of these efforts are discussed...
- Dietary folate and vitamins B-12 and B-6 not associated with incident Alzheimer's disease
Martha Clare Morris
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, 1645 W Jackson 675, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Alzheimers Dis 9:435-43. 2006
..It is currently not known whether dietary intakes of folate and vitamins B12 and B6, co-factors in the methylation of homocysteine, protect against Alzheimer's disease...
- Relation of the tocopherol forms to incident Alzheimer disease and to cognitive change
Martha Clare Morris
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 81:508-14. 2005
..High intake of vitamin E from food (tocopherol), but not from supplements (which usually contain alpha-tocopherol), is inversely associated with Alzheimer disease...
- Decision rules guiding the clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in two community-based cohort studies compared to standard practice in a clinic-based cohort study
David A Bennett
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Chicago, Ill, USA
Neuroepidemiology 27:169-76. 2006
..This approach holds promise for reducing the operational costs of epidemiologic studies of aging and AD...
- The effect of adult day care services on time to nursing home placement in older adults with Alzheimer's disease
Judith J McCann
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Gerontologist 45:754-63. 2005
..This longitudinal study examined whether the use of adult day care services delayed time to nursing home placement in persons with Alzheimer's disease...
- The neuropathology of older persons with and without dementia from community versus clinic cohorts
Julie A Schneider
Department of Pathology Neuropathology and Neurological Sciences, Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Armour Academic Center, 600 South Paulina Street, Suite 1022F, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Alzheimers Dis 18:691-701. 2009
..Overall, clinic-based persons have more Lewy bodies and atypical pathologies. The spectrum of pathologies underlying cognitive impairment in clinic-based cohorts differs from community-based cohorts...
- Accounting for bias due to selective attrition: the example of smoking and cognitive decline
Jennifer Weuve
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging and Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Epidemiology 23:119-28. 2012
..Using inverse-probability-of-attrition weights, we examined the influence of selective attrition on the estimated association of current smoking (vs. never smoking) with cognitive decline...
- A battery of tests for assessing cognitive function in older Latino persons
Kristin R Krueger
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 23:384-8. 2009
..The results suggest that this battery may be useful in epidemiologic research on cognition in older Latinos...
- Racial differences in the progression of cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease
Lisa L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Depeartment of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 13:959-67. 2005
..The purpose of the current study was to examine the association of race with rate of cognitive decline in AD...
- The apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele and decline in different cognitive systems during a 6-year period
Robert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center and Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, 1645 W Jackson Blvd, Suite 675, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Neurol 59:1154-60. 2002
..The apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon 4 allele is known to influence risk of AD but it has been difficult to establish whether it affects episodic memory differently from other cognitive functions...
