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ReviewNeurodegenerative disease management2016

Traumatic brain injury as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease: current knowledge and future directions.

Kristen Dams-O'Connor, Gabrielle Guetta, Amanda E Hahn-Ketter, Andrew Fedor

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Review in Neurodegenerative disease management, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kristen Dams-O'ConnorBrain Injury Research Center, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Gabrielle GuettaBrain Injury Research Center, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Amanda E Hahn-KetterBrain Injury Research Center, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Andrew FedorBrain Injury Research Center, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.

Funding

Neuropathology of CTE and Delayed Effects of TBI: Toward In-Vivo DiagnosticsU01NS086625 · NINDS · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI DAMS-O'CONNOR, KRISTEN · 2014 to 2017
$6.1M
Comprehensive Investigation of the Clinical Course of Traumatic Brain InjuryK01HD074651 · NICHD · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI DAMS-O'CONNOR, KRISTEN · 2014 to 2018
$536k
NICHD NIH HHS K01 HD074651NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS086625
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is growing concern about the late effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI). This scoping review summarizes clinical research from the past 10 years that evaluates the relationship between TBI and Alzheimer's disease. This review identified five studies that found increased risk for dementia after TBI, two studies that found no increased risk and four studies that found a relationship only under certain conditions or in specified subsamples. Methodological differences across studies preclude direct comparison of results, and discrepant findings elucidate the complex course of post-TBI neurodegeneration. We discuss the factors that influence the strength and direction of the relationship between TBI and Alzheimer's disease, and the implications of this body of research for patient care and future research.

Indexed as

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeAlzheimer DiseaseBiomedical ResearchBrain Injuries, TraumaticForecastingHumansNerve DegenerationRisk FactorsAlzheimer's diseasedementiatraumatic brain injury

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PMID27599555
PMCPMC5066138

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