Loneliness and risk of Alzheimer disease.

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Published in Arch Gen Psychiatry on February 01, 2007

Authors

Robert S Wilson1, Kristin R Krueger, Steven E Arnold, Julie A Schneider, Jeremiah F Kelly, Lisa L Barnes, Yuxiao Tang, David A Bennett

Author Affiliations

1: Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. rwilson@rush.edu

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