NR APAY
AU Bacchetti,P.
TI Age and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
QU Emerging Infectious Diseases 2003 Dec; 9(12): 1611-2
IA http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol9no12/03-0361.htm
KI Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 Jun;10(6):1164-5. PMID: 15224674
PT journal article
AB The young and stable median age of those who die of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease has been attributed to age-dependent infection rates. This analysis shows that an influence of age on risk for death after infection better explains age patterns, suggesting that biologic factors peaking in the third decade of life may hasten disease.
MH Adult; Age Factors; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/*epidemiology/mortality; Humans; Models, Biological
AD Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0560, USA. peter@biostat.ucsf.edu
SP englisch
PO USA