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| Alcohol intake and risk of dementia | | Author(s) | Jose A Luchsinger, Ming-Xin Tang, Maliha Siddiqui |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 52, no 4, April 2004 |
| Pages | pp 540-546 |
| Source | http://www.americangeriatrics.org http://www.blackwellpublishing.com |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Alcoholic beverages ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The association between intake of different types of alcoholic beverages and dementia was examined in 980 community-dwelling individuals aged 65+ without dementia at baseline and recruited between 1991 and 1996 for the Washington Heights Inwood-Columbia Aging Project in New York. Subjects were followed annually and incidence of dementia was diagnosed using DSM-IV. After 4 years of follow-up, 260 individuals had developed dementia: 199 Alzheimer's disease (AD), 61 dementia associated with stroke (DAS). After adjusting for age, sex, apolipoprotein E (APOE-e4) status, education and other alcoholic beverages, only intake of up to 3 daily servings of wine was associated with a lower risk of AD. Intake of liquor, beer and total alcohol was not associated with a lower risk of AD. Stratified analyses by the APOE-e4 alele revealed that the association between wine consumption and lower risk of AD was confined to individuals without the APOE-e4 allele. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040603211 A |
| Classmark | EA: YPP: 49: 7T |
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