Brain Volume as an Integrated Marker for the Risk of Death in a Community-Based Sample: Age Gene/Environment Susceptibility--Reykjavik Study.

• Published in: The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
• Main Authors: Van Elderen, Saskia S G C, Zhang, Qian, Sigurdsson, Sigudur, Haight, Thaddeus J, Lopez, Oscar, Eiriksdottir, Gudny, Jonsson, Palmi, de Jong, Laura, Harris, Tamara B, Garcia, Melissa, Gudnason, Vilmundar, van Buchem, Mark A, Launer, Lenore J
• Other Authors: 1 Leiden Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Radiol, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands 2 NIA, Lab Epidemiol & Populat Sci, Intramural Res Program, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892 USA 3 Icelandic Heart Assoc, Kopavogur, Iceland 4 Univ Pittsburgh, Dept Neurol, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA 5 Landspitali Hosp, Reykjavik, Iceland Organization-Enhanced Name(s) Landspitali National University Hospital
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Univ Press 2016
• Subjects: Aldraðir; Hjarta- og æðasjúkdómar; Dauði; GER12; Aged; 80 and over; Aging; Atrophy; Brain; Cardiovascular Diseases; Cause of Death; Cerebrovascular Disorders; Demography; Female; Health Status Indicators; Humans; Iceland; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Mortality; Organ Size; Proportional Hazards Models; Risk Factors; Statistics as Topic; Hjarta
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/605764; https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glu192

To access publisher's full text version of this article click on the hyperlink at the bottom of the page Total brain volume is an integrated measure of health and may be an independent indicator of mortality risk independent of any one clinical or subclinical disease state. We investigate the a...