Simon Israeli?Korn|Magdalena Masarwa|Edna Schechtman|Amin Abuful|Rosa Strugatsky|Shiri Avni|Lindsay A. Farrer|Robert P. Friedland|Rivka Inzelberg
Hypertension Increases the Probability of Alzheimer’s Disease and of Mild Cognitive Impairment in an Arab Community in Northern Israel
Sheba Medical Center|Sheba Medical Center|Ben-Gurion University of the Negev|Sheba Medical Center|Sheba Medical Center|Tel Aviv University|Boston University|University of Louisville|Sheba Medical Center|Tel Aviv University
aimed determine whether vascular risk factors associated alzheimers disease ad mild cognitive impairment mci elderly arab populationan arabicspeaking team performed doortodoor survey consecutive residents aged 65 years estimated odds ad mci versus normal controls function age gender education presence vascular factors multinomial logistic regression interactionsout 767 subjects 54 men 444 cognitively normal 234 mci 89 ad ad significantly associated hypertension p 001 208 95 ci 118365 age p 00001 119 95 ci 114124 female gender p 00016 306 95 ci 153615 education p 00002 075 95 ci 065088 mci significantly associated hypertension p 00042 169 95 ci 125244 age p 00001 106 95 ci 103109 education p 00001 076 95 ci 071083 genderhypertension older age low education significantly increase probability ad mci effect hypertension odds ad versus controls effects age gender education mci versus controls gender effect effect hypertension effects age education