Clinical aspects of dementia in African-American, Hispanic, and white patients

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 15-21

  Hargrave, Rita ^a,b   Stoeklin, Maria ^a   Haan, Mary ^a   Reed, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Geriatric psychiatry

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGRO; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0033643374     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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