Article
Association of the epsilon 4 allele of apolipoprotein E with poor performance on a dementia screen in African Americans.
Ethnicity & disease - 1 Jan 1996
Hui S L, Gao S, Hall K S, Sahota A, Hendrie H C
Abstract excerpt
In a community-based study of Alzheimer's disease in African Americans age 65 and over, subjects were classified into three levels of performance based on their scores as measured by the Community Screening Instrument for Dementia (CSI"D"), consisting of cognitive and functioning components. In a...
Topics
- Aged
- Alzheimer Disease
- Apolipoprotein E4
- Apolipoproteins E
- Black People
- Cognition
- Educational Status
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Mass Screening
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Odds Ratio
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Regression Analysis
- Black or African American
