Population-Based Mini-Mental State Examination Norms in Adults of Mexican Heritage in the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort

BACKGROUND: Accurately identifying cognitive changes in Mexican American (MA) adults using the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) requires knowledge of population-based norms for the MMSE, a scale which has widespread use in research settings.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the distribution of MMSE scores in a large cohort of MA adults, assess the impact of MMSE requirements on their clinical trial eligibility, and explore which factors are most strongly associated with their MMSE scores.

METHODS: Visits between 2004-2021 in the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort were analyzed. Eligible participants were ≥18 years old and of Mexican descent. MMSE distributions before and after stratification by age and years of education (YOE) were assessed, as was the proportion of trial-aged (50-85- year-old) participants with MMSE <24, a minimum MMSE cutoff most frequently used in Alzheimer's disease (AD) clinical trials. As a secondary analysis, random forest models were constructed to estimate the relative association of the MMSE with potentially relevant variables.

RESULTS: The mean age of the sample set (n = 3,404) was 44.4 (SD, 16.0) years old and 64.5% female. Median MMSE was 28 (IQR, 28-29). The percentage of trial-aged participants (n = 1,267) with MMSE <24 was 18.6% overall and 54.3% among the subset with 0-4 YOE (n = 230). The five variables most associated with the MMSE in the study sample were education, age, exercise, C-reactive protein, and anxiety.

CONCLUSION: The minimum MMSE cutoffs in most phase III prodromal-to-mild AD trials would exclude a significant proportion of trial-aged participants in this MA cohort, including over half of those with 0-4 YOE.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:92

Enthalten in:

Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD - 92(2023), 4 vom: 28., Seite 1323-1339

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Bukhbinder, Avram S [VerfasserIn]
Hinojosa, Miriam [VerfasserIn]
Harris, Kristofer [VerfasserIn]
Li, Xiaojin [VerfasserIn]
Farrell, Christine M [VerfasserIn]
Shyer, Madison [VerfasserIn]
Goodwin, Nathan [VerfasserIn]
Anjum, Sahar [VerfasserIn]
Hasan, Omar [VerfasserIn]
Cooper, Susan [VerfasserIn]
Sciba, Lois [VerfasserIn]
Vargas, Amanda Falk [VerfasserIn]
Hunter, David H [VerfasserIn]
Ortiz, Guadalupe J [VerfasserIn]
Chung, Karen [VerfasserIn]
Cui, Licong [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Guo-Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Fisher-Hoch, Susan P [VerfasserIn]
McCormick, Joseph B [VerfasserIn]
Schulz, Paul E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cameron County Hispanic Cohort
Clinical trial eligibility
Journal Article
Mexican Americans
Mini-Mental State Examination
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

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Date Completed 29.04.2023

Date Revised 23.05.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3233/JAD-220934

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM353786543