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The Role of Zinc in Senile Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Chris Kenn  and
Elizabeth Gibb
Chris Kenn*
Affiliation:
St James's Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds 9
Elizabeth Gibb
Affiliation:
Leeds Psychiatric Rotation Training Scheme
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Zinc deficiency has been reported in association with dementia and linked with its pathogenesis. A group of 45 elderly patients admitted to a mental hospital were given diagnoses in accordance with ICD-9, and their fasting plasma zinc levels were recorded. No difference was found in zinc levels between patients with diagnoses of senile dementia and those with other diagnoses.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 2 , August 1986 , pp. 221 - 223
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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