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American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias®
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Neuropsychiatric and Behavioral Symptoms in a Community Sample of Hispanics With Alzheimer's Disease

Freddy Ortiz, MA

The Neuro-psychiatry Research Memory Clinic, Olive View–UCLA Medical Center, 14445 Olive View Drive (ERI), Sylmar, CA 91342; freddyo{at}ucla.edu

L. Jaime Fitten, MD

Jeffrey L. Cummings, MD

Sun Hwang, MA

Maureen Fonseca, MPH, BS

The purpose of this study was to characterize and compare neuropsychiatric symptoms in a sample of 367 community-dwelling subjects: 70 Hispanics and 230 non-Hispanic white patients with Alzheimer's disease, and 22 Hispanics and 45 non-Hispanic white healthy age-matched controls. Neuropsychiatric symptoms were common among all patients with Alzheimer's disease. In the Alzheimer's disease groups, Hispanic subjects presented to the initial assessment with more symptoms than non-Hispanic white subjects did. In comparison to the non-Hispanic white population, the proportion of Hispanics with neuropsychiatric and behavioral symptoms was higher. These findings have implications for differential sociocultural presentations of Alzheimer's disease among ethnic/racial groups.

Key Words: dementia • Alzheimer's disease • neuropsychiatric symptoms • Neuropsychiatric Inventory • Hispanics

American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias®, Vol. 21, No. 4, 263-273 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1533317506289350
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