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January 1, 2001Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & PsychiatryOpen Access

Prevalence of cerebral white matter lesions in elderly people: a population based magnetic resonance imaging study. The Rotterdam Scan Study

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Population

Elderly people from a population-based cohort (The Rotterdam Scan Study)

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

FLF-E de LeeuwHospital de Sant Pau

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Implication

May contribute to dementia disparities in older women; cross-sectional data leave causality and practice implications open.

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Population
Elderly people from a population-based cohort (The Rotterdam Scan Study)
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Outcome
Prevalence and degree of cerebral white matter lesionssurrogate

Cerebral white matter lesions increase with age and are more severe in women, which may contribute to the higher incidence of dementia in older women.

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F-E de Leeuw (2001) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d95efd3e67f8d13868413ehttps://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.70.1.9
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