Clinical epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease: assessing sex and gender differences

MM Mielke, P Vemuri, WA Rocca - Clinical epidemiology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
With the aging of the population, the burden of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is rapidly
expanding. More than 5 million people in the US alone are affected with AD and this number …

Targeting neuroinflammation to treat Alzheimer's disease

A Ardura-Fabregat, E Boddeke, A Boza-Serrano… - CNS drugs, 2017 - Springer
Over the past few decades, research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) has focused on
pathomechanisms linked to two of the major pathological hallmarks of extracellular …

Ozone, particulate matter, and newly diagnosed Alzheimer's disease: a population-based cohort study in Taiwan

CR Jung, YT Lin, BF Hwang - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 2015 - content.iospress.com
Several studies with animal research associate air pollution in Alzheimer's disease (AD)
neuropathology, but the actual impact of air pollution on the risk of AD is unknown. Here, this …

Smoking and increased Alzheimer's disease risk: a review of potential mechanisms

TC Durazzo, N Mattsson, MW Weiner… - Alzheimer's & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Cigarette smoking has been linked with both increased and decreased risk for
Alzheimer's disease (AD). This is relevant for the US military because the prevalence of …

How air pollution alters brain development: the role of neuroinflammation

S Brockmeyer, A d'Angiulli - Translational neuroscience, 2016 - degruyter.com
The present review synthesizes lines of emerging evidence showing how several samples
of children populations living in large cities around the world suffer to some degree neural …

Cardiovascular risk factors from childhood and midlife cognitive performance: the Young Finns Study

SP Rovio, K Pahkala, J Nevalainen, M Juonala… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - jacc.org
Background: In adults, high blood pressure (BP), adverse serum lipids, and smoking
associate with cognitive deficits. The effects of these risk factors from childhood on midlife …

Early Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease pathology in urban children: friend versus foe responses—it is time to face the evidence

L Calderón-Garcidueñas, M Franco-Lira… - BioMed research …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Chronic exposure to particulate matter air pollution is known to cause inflammation leading
to respiratory‐and cardiovascular‐related sickness and death. Mexico City Metropolitan …

The 20-year voyage aboard the journal of Alzheimer's disease: docking at 'Type 3 Diabetes', environmental/exposure factors, pathogenic mechanisms, and potential …

SM de la Monte, M Tong… - Journal of Alzheimer's …, 2018 - content.iospress.com
Abstract The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (JAD), founded in 1998, played a pivotal role in
broadening the field of research on Alzheimer's disease (AD) by publishing a diverse range …

Associations of cigarette smoking with gray and white matter in the UK Biobank

JC Gray, M Thompson, C Bachman… - …, 2020 - nature.com
Cigarette smoking is associated with increased risk for myriad health consequences
including cognitive decline and dementia, but research on the link between smoking and …

Comparison of the cardiac effects of electronic cigarette aerosol exposure with waterpipe and combustible cigarette smoke exposure in rats

F Mayyas, H Aldawod, KH Alzoubi, O Khabour… - Life sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Aims Electronic cigarette (ECIG) has been used as an alternative to tobacco smoking as it
lacks the majority of toxicants found in tobacco smoke. However, the effect of ECIG aerosol …