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P3–081: Perfromance in the CERAD battery by a sample of nondemented Puerto Rican nonagenarians
Author(s) -
Carrion-Baralt Jose
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2006.05.1348
Subject(s) - puerto rican , gerontology , ethnic group , psychology , population , neuropsychology , normative , disease , medicine , cognition , psychiatry , pathology , philosophy , environmental health , epistemology , sociology , anthropology
91.3% age-matched normal elderly controls. Using the criterion of one or more impairments in any of eight memory indices, 20% of MCI patients and 35% of normals were misclassified when the cut-off used was 1.5 SD below the expected mean values. Conclusions: A combination of widely used memory measures demonstrated both high sensitivity and specificity in distinguishing patients with MCI-AD from normal community-dwelling elders. The use of a 1.5 SD below expected means as the criterion for impairment was appropriate for combinations of two or perhaps three tests, but for combinations of four or more memory measures a 2.0 SD cut-off was optimal.