Effective screening for Alzheimer's disease among older African Americans.
Clin Neuropsychol
; 15(2): 196-202, 2001 May.
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| ID: mdl-11528541
ABSTRACT
Relatively little data exist concerning the utility of brief cognitive measures to detect dementia among African Americans. The current study evaluated the clinical utility of the Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE) and the Fuld Object Memory Evaluation (FOME) in detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) among both African American and European American older adults. One hundred and forty geriatric patients from a large urban academic medical center were examined. Overall, the FOME appeared to be more effective in detecting AD than was the MMSE (93% sensitivity vs. 75% sensitivity, respectively), although both measures suffered from relatively low specificity (63.5) in the full sample. The FOME demonstrated exceptional clinical utility among African American patients (sensitivity 98.3%; specificity = 64.5; positive predictive power 83.8%; negative predictive power 95.2%). The results of this study support the use of the FOME among older African Americans to detect dementia.
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Negro o Afroamericano
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Tamizaje Masivo
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Enfermedad de Alzheimer
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Escala del Estado Mental
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Pruebas Neuropsicológicas
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Límite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Clin Neuropsychol
Asunto de la revista:
NEUROLOGIA
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PSICOLOGIA
Año:
2001
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos