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Dementia in urban black outpatients
— initial experience at the Emory satellite clinics | | Author(s) | Alexander P Auchus |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 37, no 1, February 1997 |
| Pages | pp 25-29 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Black people ; Out-patients ; Geriatric out-patients clinics ; Screening ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This study describes the demographic features and clinical diagnoses in a sample of demented urban black outpatients at the Emory satellite memory assessment clinics (MACs) in Atlanta, Georgia, and reports the frequency of different causes of their dementia. Probable Alzheimer's disease was the most common cause of dementia in this sample(43% of cases). Probable vascular dementia was uncommon (7%). A multiple aetiology dementia was identified in more than one third of the patients. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970702004 A |
| Classmark | EA: TKE: LFB: L6G: 3V: 7T |
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