Differential effects of completed and incomplete pregnancies on the risk of Alzheimer disease

Hyesue Jang1, Jong Bin Bae1, Efthimios Dardiotis1

  • 1From the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (H.J., K.W.K.), Seoul National University College of Natural Sciences; Department of Psychiatry (J.B.B., J.W.H., D.Y.L., K.W.K.), Seoul National University, College of Medicine; Department of Neuropsychiatry (J.B.B., J.W.H., K.W.K.), Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea; Department of Neurology (E.D.), Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa; Department of Social Medicine, Psychiatry and Neurology (N.S.), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Department of Neurology (N.S.), Columbia University, New York, NY; Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (P.S.S., D.M.L.) and Dementia Collaborative Research Centre (P.S.S.), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Department of Psychiatry (T.H.K.), Yonsei University Wonju Severance Christian Hospital; Department of Psychiatry (K.P.K.), Dongguk University Gyeongju Hospital; Department of Psychiatry (B.J.K.), Gyeongsang National University, School of Medicine, Jinju; Department of Neuropsychiatry (S.G.K.), Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital; Department of Psychiatry (J.L.K.), School of Medicine, Chungnam National University, Daejeon; Department of Psychiatry (S.W.M.), School of Medicine, Konkuk University and Konkuk University Chungju Hospital; Department of Neuropsychiatry (J.H.P.), Jeju National University Hospital; Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine (S.-H.R.), Konkuk University and Konkuk University Medical Center, Seoul; Department of Neuropsychiatry (J.C.Y.), Kyunggi Provincial Hospital for the Elderly, Yongin; Department of Neuropsychiatry (D.Y.L.), Seoul National University Hospital; Department of Neuropsychiatry (D.W.L.), Inje University Sanggye Paik Hospital, Seoul; Department of Psychiatry (S.B.L., J.J.L.), Dankook University Hospital, Cheonan; Department of Psychiatry (J.H.J.), Kangwon National University, School of Medicine, Chuncheon, South Korea; Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (M.Y.), Harokopio University, Athens; Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (M.H.K.), School of Psychology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; School of Medicine (G.M.H.), University of Thessaly, Larissa; Athens Association of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders (P.S.), Marousi, Greece; and Department of Neurology (G.M.H), Medical School, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Neurology
|July 20, 2018
PubMed

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