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SUBMITTER: Pase MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6820519 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pase Matthew P MP Himali Jayandra J JJ Jacques Paul F PF DeCarli Charles C Satizabal Claudia L CL Aparicio Hugo H Vasan Ramachandran S RS Beiser Alexa S AS Seshadri Sudha S
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 20170306 9
<h4>Introduction</h4>Excess sugar consumption has been linked with Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology in animal models.<h4>Methods</h4>We examined the cross-sectional association of sugary beverage consumption with neuropsychological (N = 4276) and magnetic resonance imaging (N = 3846) markers of preclinical Alzheimer's disease and vascular brain injury (VBI) in the community-based Framingham Heart Study. Intake of sugary beverages was estimated using a food frequency questionnaire.<h4>Results</ ...[more]