Early stages of Alzheimer's disease are alarming signs in injury deaths caused by traffic accidents in elderly people (≥60 years of age): A neuropathological study.

There is little information available in the literature concerning the contribution of dementia in injury deaths in elderly people (≥60 years).This study was intended to investigate the extent of dementia-related pathologies in the brains of elderly people who died in traffic accidents or by suicide and to compare our findings with age- and sex-matched natural deaths in an elderly population.Autopsy-derived human brain samples from nine injury...