Sex-specific relationship of cardiometabolic syndrome with lower cortical thickness

Si Eun Kim1, Jin San Lee1, Sookyoung Woo1

  • 1From the Departments of Neurology (S.E.K., H.J.K., S.P., H.J., S.J.K., S.H.C., D.L.N., S.W.S.), Clinical Research Design and Evaluation (S.W.S.), and Health Sciences and Technology (D.L.N.), SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul; Department of Neurology (S.E.K., B.I.L., J.P.), Inje University College of Medicine, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Busan; Department of Neurology (J.S.L.), Kyung Hee University Hospital; Statistics and Data Center (S.W., S.K.), Center for Clinical Epidemiology (S.W.S.), and Samsung Alzheimer Research Center, Neuroscience Center (H.J.K., S.P., H.J., D.L.N., S.W.S.), Samsung Medical Center, Seoul; Department of Neurology (Y.K.), Kangwon National University College of Medicine, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do; Department of Neurology (S.J.K.), Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine and Gyeongsang National University Changwon Hospital; Department of Neurology (S.H.C.), Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju; Department of Neurology (B.L.), Yuseong Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital, Pohang, Korea; and Department of Internal Medicine (S.N.L.), Section of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.

Neurology
|August 25, 2019
PubMed
Abstract

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