Andrea L.C. Schneider|A. Richey Sharrett|Rebecca F. Gottesman|Josef Coresh|Laura H. Coker|Lisa Wruck|Ola A. Selnes|Jennifer A. Deal|David S. Knopman|Thomas H. Mosley
Normative Data for 8 Neuropsychological Tests in Older Blacks and Whites From the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins Medicine|Johns Hopkins University|Wake Forest University|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|Johns Hopkins Medicine|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University|Mayo Clinic in Arizona|University of Mississippi Medical Center
accurate assessment cognitive impairment requires comparison cognitive performance individuals performance comparable healthy normative population prior studies included large number black participants excluded participants normative sample subclinicallatent neurological disease dementia study provides age race educationspecific normative data 8 cognitive tests derived 320 black 392 white participants aged 61 82 years mean 71 atherosclerosis risk communities aric study without clinical subclinicallatent neurological disease normative data provided delayed word recall test logical memory parts ii word fluency test animal naming trail making test parts b digit symbol substitution test age race educationspecific mean 15 sd scores given tabular form graphically well regressionbased equations derive adjusted score cutpoints robust normative data enhance comparison across studies cognitive aging measures widely used improve interpretation performance tests diagnosis cognitive impairment within aric cohort also among older blacks whites similar demographics