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Ethnic differences in Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores
— where you live makes a difference | | Author(s) | David V Espino, Michael J Lichtenstein, Raymond F Palmer |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 49, no 5, May 2001 |
| Pages | pp 538-548 |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 827 community-dwelling Mexican American and European American participants aged 65+ in the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging (SALSA) and living in three socio-economically and culturally distinct neighbourhoods were compared for cognitive function (measured by the Mini-Mental State Examination - MMSE). Neighbourhood type was a predictor of cognitive impairment. Education affected MMSE scores similarly in both groups. MMSE scores <24, indicative of cognitive impairment, were uniformly associated with functional impairment in both Mexican and European Americans. In older Mexican Americans, MMSE-classified cognitive impairment was significantly associated with poorer performance on timed tasks with varying levels of cognitive demand, independent of other correlates. A similar pattern of association was observed in European Americans. Thus, the MMSE appears to be a valid indicator of cognitive impairment in survey research in both older Mexican Americans and European Americans. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020115218 A |
| Classmark | TK: RH: DA: 4C: 7T |
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