Age‐specific norms for the Mini‐Mental State Exam
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 38 (10) , 1565
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.38.10.1565
Abstract
Article abstract—We administered the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) to 194 healthy men and women, ages 40 to 89 years. Total score was significantly associated with age (p < 0.0001), but not vocabulary, education, Beck9s Depression Inventory Score, or sex. The lowest quartile cutoff scores for the MMSE by decade were 40s −29; 50s −28; 60s −28; 70s −28; and 80s −26. When screening for progressive decline in cognitive performance, the use of age-specific norms may provide greater sensitivity than the present recommended cutoff score of less than 24.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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