Neuropsychiatric and behavioral symptoms in a community sample of Hispanics with Alzheimer's disease.
The purpose of this study was to characterize and compare neuropsychiatric symptoms in a sample of 367 community-dwelling subjects: 70 Hispanics and 230 non-Hispanic white patients with Alzheimer's disease, and 22 Hispanics and 45 non-Hispanic white healthy age-matched controls. Neuropsychiatric symptoms were common among all patients with Alzheimer's disease. In the Alzheimer's disease groups, Hispanic subjects presented to the initial assessment with more symptoms than non-Hispanic white subjects did. In comparison to the non-Hispanic white population, the proportion of Hispanics with neuropsychiatric and behavioral symptoms was higher. These findings have implications for differential sociocultural presentations of Alzheimer's disease among ethnic/racial groups.
Ortiz
Freddy
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The Neuropsychiatry Research Memory Clinic, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA 91342, USA. freddyo@ucla.edu
Fitten
L Jaime
LJ
Cummings
Jeffrey L
JL
Hwang
Sun
S
Fonseca
Maureen
M
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003702:Delusions / Q000453:epidemiology; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000453:epidemiology; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007508:Irritable Mood; D008297:Male; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012494:Sampling Studies; D044465:White People