Ethnoracial differences in the clinical characteristics of alzheimer's disease at initial presentation at an urban alzheimer's disease center

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 430-439

  Livney, Melissa Gartenberg ^a,b   Clark, Christopher M ^a,b   Karlawish, Jason H ^a,b   Cartmell, Su ^a,b   Negrón, Mirna ^a   Nuñez, Jessica ^a,b   Xie, Sharon X ^a,b   Entenza Cabrera, Fernando ^c   Vega, Irving E ^d   Arnold, Steven E ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; APOE; dementia; ethnoracial differences

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; ONSET AGE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

EID: 79955483428     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e3181f7d881     Document Type: Article

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