Onset of dementia is associated with age
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Nicole Schupf; Deborah Pang; Bindu N. Patel; Wayne Silverman; Romaine Schubert;
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Women with Down's syndrome experience early onset of both menopause and Alzheimer's disease. This timing provides an opportunity to examine the influence of endogenous estrogen deficiency, indicated by age at menopause, on risk of Alzheimer's disease. A community-based sample of 163 postmenopausal w