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Bernadette McGuinness

Clinical Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast
Verified email at qub.ac.uk
Cited by 20785

Statins for the prevention of dementia

B McGuinness, D Craig, R Bullock… - Cochrane database of …, 2009 - cochranelibrary.com
Background This is an update of a Cochrane review first published in 2001. At that stage there
was insufficient evidence to recommend statins for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease (…

Blood pressure lowering in patients without prior cerebrovascular disease for prevention of cognitive impairment and dementia

B McGuinness, S Todd, P Passmore… - Cochrane Database of …, 2009 - cochranelibrary.com
Blood pressure lowering in patients without prior cerebrovascular disease for prevention of
cognitive impairment and dementia - McGuinness, B - 2009 | Cochrane Library … Thus …

Statins for the treatment of dementia

B McGuinness, D Craig, R Bullock… - Cochrane Database …, 2014 - cochranelibrary.com
Background The use of statin therapy in established Alzheimer's disease (AD) or vascular
dementia (VaD) is a relatively unexplored area. In AD, β‐amyloid protein (Aβ) is deposited in …

[HTML][HTML] Endovascular therapy for ischemic stroke with perfusion-imaging selection

…, R Scroop, PA Barber, B McGuinness… - … England Journal of …, 2015 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Trials of endovascular therapy for ischemic stroke have produced variable
results. We conducted this study to test whether more advanced imaging selection, recently …

Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

…, L Keller, P Barberger-Gateau, B McGuinness… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Eleven susceptibility loci for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) were identified by previous
studies; however, a large portion of the genetic risk for this disease remains unexplained. …

Genome-wide association study identifies variants at CLU and PICALM associated with Alzheimer's disease

…, KS Brown, PA Passmore, D Craig, B McGuinness… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
We undertook a two-stage genome-wide association study (GWAS) of Alzheimer's disease (AD)
involving over 16,000 individuals, the most powerful AD GWAS to date. In stage 1 (3,941 …

Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease

…, KS Brown, PA Passmore, D Craig, B McGuinness… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
We sought to identify new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease through a staged
association study (GERAD+) and by testing suggestive loci reported by the Alzheimer's Disease …

Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

…, H Lin, LB Cantwell, F Panza, B McGuinness… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We identified rare coding variants associated with Alzheimer's disease in a three-stage case–control
study of 85,133 subjects. In stage 1, we genotyped 34,174 samples using a whole-…

[HTML][HTML] Genetic evidence implicates the immune system and cholesterol metabolism in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease

…, KS Brown, PA Passmore, D Craig, B McGuinness… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Late Onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is the leading cause of dementia.
Recent large genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified the first strongly supported …

[BOOK][B] Wittgenstein, a Life: Young Ludwig, 1889-1921

B McGuinness - 1988 - books.google.com
LONG a student of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and, with Mr David Pears (now Professor), a
translator of it, I came to an interest in Wittgenstein's life through the discovery of various papers …