Cognitive impairment is associated with mitochondrial dysfunction in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of elderly population

Participants in this study

The present study is a cross-sectional study, and it was approved by the Committee on Human Rights Related to Research Involving Human Subjects, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand (Approval number: ID 05-51-19). All experiments involving human participants were carried out under the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee, the 1964 Helsinki Declaration, and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards, with a STROBE statement for reporting data from a cross-sectional study. Participants gave written informed consent. The participants with the age greater or equal to 65 years old who underwent routine physical checkup during August–October 2017 were included to this study. The total participants in the present study were 1199 subjects. The exclusion criteria were (1) history of…

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