title: Smoking and Alzheimer's disease: protective effect or differential survival bias?
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center 26506-9180.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Riggs
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015982:Bias; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012907:Smoking; D015996:Survival Rate