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9686747

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-10-22
pubmed:abstractText
Few reports exist of cognitive impairment and associated factors in developing countries. An age-stratified random sample of 388 men and women, 55 years and older, was drawn from a community-based population in the rural area of Ballabgarh in northern India. We classified as "cognitively impaired" those subjects who had scores below the 10th percentile of the population on a general mental status test (the Hindi Mental State Exam, HMSE) and, separately, on a memory test (Delayed Recall of a 10-Item Word List, DRWL). Three hundred seventy-six subjects also underwent a standardized neurologic history and examination. Neurologic factors associated with cognitive impairment, after adjusting for age, gender, and literacy, were history of impaired consciousness and findings of gait disturbance, diminished deep tendon reflexes, and the presence of at least one primitive reflex. We speculate that there may be unique risk factors in developing countries such as nutritional deficiencies leading to focal deficits and cognitive impairment.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0891-9887
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
11-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Neurologic factors associated with cognitive impairment in a rural elderly population in India: the Indo-US Cross-National Dementia Epidemiology Study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.