Acta neurologica Scandinavica
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Acta Neurol. Scand. · Sep 2008
Risk of dementia associated with the ApoE epsilon4 allele and falls causing head injury without explicit traumatic brain injury.
Severe head injury (HI) and the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) epsilon4 allele are risk factors for dementia. The corresponding effect of falls causing HI without explicit traumatic brain injury (TBI) in association with the ApoE epsilon4 is not known. ⋯ According to the results of this small retrospective study, falls with HI without explicit TBI in connection with the ApoE epsilon4 allele is associated with subsequent dementia among older adults.