| Title: |
Neuropsychiatric and Behavioral Symptoms in a Community Sample of Hispanics With Alzheimer's Disease |
| Authors: |
Ortiz, Freddy; Fitten, L. Jaime; Cummings, Jeffrey L.; Hwang, Sun; Fonseca, Maureen |
| Source: |
American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias® ; volume 21, issue 4, page 263-273 ; ISSN 1533-3175 1938-2731 |
| Publisher Information: |
SAGE Publications |
| Publication Year: |
2006 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1177/1533317506289350 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.1177/1533317506289350; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1533317506289350 |
| Rights: |
https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.92DE6F3D |
| Database: |
BASE |