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- Title
Diagnostic accuracy of mini-mental status examination and revised Hasegawa Dementia Scale for Alzheimer's disease.
- Authors
Kim KW; Lee DY; Jhoo JH; Youn JC; Suh YJ; Jun YH; Seo EH; Woo JI
- Abstract
To compare the diagnostic accuracies of the Revised Hasegawa Dementia Scale (HDS-R) and Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) for Alzheimer's diseases (AD), we administered them simultaneously to 82 AD patients and 82 age- and sex-matched nondemented control subjects. The area under the receiver operator curve (AUC) for AD of the HDS-R (AUCHDS-R) and MMSE (AUCMMSE) were bigger than 0.90 indicating that both tests are useful for detecting AD. However, AUCHDS-R (0.952) was significantly larger than that of the AUCMMSE (0.902) regard-less of the educational level of the subjects, indicating that the HDS-R is more accurate than MMSE in diagnosing AD. Moreover, the superiority of the HDS-R (AUCHDS_R = 0.894) to the MMSE (AUCMMSE = 0.704) remained significant in mild AD patients alone, who are the focus of screening. In conclusion, the HDS-R is better than the MMSE as a screening instrument for AD.
- Publication
Dementia & Geriatric Cognitive Disorders, 2005, Vol 19, Issue 5/6, p324
- ISSN
1420-8008
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1159/000084558