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Genomes and Genes | Gail LiSummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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Statin therapy and risk of dementia in the elderly: a community-based prospective cohort studyG Li
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Neurology 63:1624-8. 2004..To assess the association between statin therapy and risk of Alzheimer disease (AD) in a prospective cohort study with documented statin exposure and incident dementia...
Temporal relationship between depression and dementia: findings from a large community-based 15-year follow-up studyGe Li
Departments of Psychiatry andBehavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:970-7. 2011..Late-life depression is associated with increased risk of dementia, but the temporal relationship between depression and development of dementia remains unclear...
Age-varying association between statin use and incident Alzheimer's diseaseGe Li
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:1311-7. 2010..To determine whether risk reduction of statins for Alzheimer's disease (AD) varies by age or presence of apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon4 allele...
Cerebrospinal fluid concentration of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and cognitive function in non-demented subjectsGe Li
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA
PLoS ONE 4:e5424. 2009..01). CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Reduced CSF BDNF was associated with age-related cognitive decline, suggesting a potential mechanism that may contribute in part to cognitive decline in older individuals...
Statin therapy is associated with reduced neuropathologic changes of Alzheimer diseaseG Li
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Neurology 69:878-85. 2007..We investigated whether antecedent statin exposure is associated with neuritic plaque (NP) or neurofibrillary tangle (NFT) burden in a population-based sample of human subjects...
Age-varying association between blood pressure and risk of dementia in those aged 65 and older: a community-based prospective cohort studyGe Li
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1161-7. 2007..To assess variation in the association between blood pressure (BP) and risk for dementia across a spectrum of older ages and to examine BP changes before dementia onset...
Salivary cortisol and memory function in human agingGe Li
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Neurobiol Aging 27:1705-14. 2006..Previous studies have suggested that elevated glucocorticoid concentrations alter hippocampal neuronal morphology, inhibit neurogenesis, and impair cognition...
Serum cholesterol and risk of Alzheimer disease: a community-based cohort studyG Li
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Neurology 65:1045-50. 2005..To examine the association of serum total cholesterol (TC) and high density lipoprotein (HDL) levels and subsequent incidence of dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD) in a population-based cohort study...
Tau phosphorylation pathway genes and cerebrospinal fluid tau levels in Alzheimer's diseaseLynn M Bekris
Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center GRECC, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, Washington 98108, USA
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 159:874-83. 2012..These results suggest that rs7768046 and rs913275 both influence CSF tau levels in an AD-associated manner...
ADAM10 expression and promoter haplotype in Alzheimer's diseaseLynn M Bekris
Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center GRECC, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
Neurobiol Aging 33:2229.e1-2229.e9. 2012..Taken together, these findings suggest that ADAM10 expression is modulated according to a promoter haplotype that is influenced in a brain region- and cell type-specific manner...
Evaluation of selection bias in an incident-based dementia autopsy case seriesDebby Tsuang
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 19:67-73. 2005....
CSF tau/Abeta42 ratio for increased risk of mild cognitive impairment: a follow-up studyG Li
Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center and Department of Psychiatry, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Neurology 69:631-9. 2007..While many studies have evaluated CSF tau and Abeta(42) as biomarkers of the dementia or prodromal stages of AD, we are unaware of any study to evaluate these potential CSF biomarkers of latent AD...
Research Grants
- Effects of Simvastatin on CSF AD biomarkers in cognitively normal subjectsGail Li; Fiscal Year: 2010..Simvastatin has been widely used for prevention of coronary artery disease. The findings of the proposed study may provide proof of concept in support of large scale primary prevention trials in persons at high risk for AD. ..
- Vascular Risk Factors in Alzheimer's DiseaseGail Li; Fiscal Year: 2006..abstract_text> ..
