title: Epidemiological characteristics of cognitive impairment of multiple sclerosis patients in a Latin American country.
abstract: We assessed cognitive performance and physical disability in 111 multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and 222 healthy controls in a multicenter study in Argentina to obtain the prevalence of cognitive impairment (CI) in a population of MS outpatients in Argentina. MS patients presented significantly lower scores in all Brief Repeatable Battery of Neuropsychology (BRB-N) tests than did the control group. The prevalence of CI was 43.2%. This study allowed us to obtain actual figures on the number of MS patients with CI in a Latin American sample. This validation is a very useful tool for clinical practice and for research studies to assess cognition in MS.
authors: Neurosciences Institute of Buenos Aires, Guardia Vieja 4435, Buenos Aires, Argentina. fcaceres@fundacionineba.org
authors: Fernando
authors: F
authors: Cáceres
authors: Sandra
authors: S
authors: Vanotti
authors: Stephen
authors: S
authors: Rao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001118:Argentina / Q000453:epidemiology; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology*; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009103:Multiple Sclerosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D015995:Prevalence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results