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Racial Differences in Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Among Dementia Outpatients

 

作者: Carl Cohen,   Carol Magai,  

 

期刊: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry  (OVID Available online 1999)
卷期: Volume 7, issue 1  

页码: 57-63

 

ISSN:1064-7481

 

年代: 1999

 

出版商: OVID

 

关键词: Racial Differences;Neuropsychiatric Symptoms;Dementia

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

This study, based on evaluations of 240 outpatients with Alzheimer's disease or multi-infarct dementia, examines whether race has any independent effects on the prevalence and levels of related neuropsychiatric symptoms. After the authors controlled for 14 potentially confounding variables, race had a significant independent effect on the levels of psychotic and depressive symptoms, the former being greater among blacks and the latter among whites. There were no differences in symptoms between U.S.-born African Americans and African Caribbeans. Although it is likely that racial differences reflect variations in symptoms brought in for evaluation, the absence of intraracial differences suggests the possibility of an underlying biological process.

 

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