Ethnic Differences in Mini‐Mental State Examination (MMSE) Scores: Where You Live Makes a Difference
- 1 May 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 49 (5) , 538-548
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49111.x
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To examine differences in correlates of the Mini‐Mental State Examination (MMSE) in a population‐based sample of older Mexican Americans and European Americans and to provide empirical va...Keywords
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