Anne E Afgin|Magda Massarwa|Edna Schechtman|Simon Israeli?Korn|Rosa Strugatsky|Amin Abuful|Lindsay A. Farrer|Robert P. Friedland|Rivka Inzelberg
High Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease in Arabic Villages in Northern Israel: Impact of Gender and Education
Sheba Medical Center|Sheba Medical Center|Ben-Gurion University of the Negev|Sheba Medical Center|Sheba Medical Center|Tel Aviv University|Boston University|University of Louisville|Sheba Medical Center|Tel Aviv University
prevalence mild cognitive impairment mci alzheimers disease ad well studied arab populations doortodoor study residents aged 65 years wadiara arab community northern israel estimated prevalence ad mci risk conversion ad subjects classified cognitively normal mci ad based neurological cognitive examination arabic mci subjects reexamined interval 1 year determine conversion ad contributions age gender education probability conversion 944 participants 966 approached 494 men 92 98 ad unusually high prevalence mci n 303 321 observed since majority women 772 schooling estimated effect gender risk ad mci among subjects without schooling school years among men among subjects schooling n 452 age p 002 female gender p 00001 significant predictors ad whereas risk mci increased age p 00001 among men n 318 age increased risk p 00001 school years reduced risk ad p 0039 similarly mci age p 00001 school years p 00007 age p 0013 gender school years significant predictor conversion mci ad annual rate 57 prevalence mci ad unusually high wadi ara rate conversion mci ad low yet unidentified genetic factors might underlie observation