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Alzheimer's Disease

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An overview of Alzheimer's Disease
Authored By Harriet Blundell on Monday 14th January 2013

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Patrick Woodburn
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Medical Student
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Posted about 7 years ago
The author may have been a little misled as regards one of those "protective" factors: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20110594
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Harriet Blundell
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Foundation Doctor - Cambridgeshire
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Posted about 7 years ago
Correct, well spotted. Perhaps because I took this information from the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, published in 2009 and your citation is from 2010. Doing a quick bit of reading, the existence of protective factors in general appear to be a contentiou
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