Table 3.

Operational characteristics of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) scores by race.

Participant Race	Cutoff	Sensitivity	Specificity	Correctly Classified Cases, %	PPP	NPP	Positive Likelihood Ratio	Negative Likelihood Ratio
White	≤26	.83	.73	75.5%	.49	.93	3.1	.23
Black		.90	.42	52.3%	.30	.94	1.56	.23
White	≤25	.72	.84	80.8%	.58	.91	4.36	.34
Black		.78	.54	59.3%	.32	.90	1.71	.40
White	≤24	.60	.90	83.1%	.66	.89	6.21	.83
Black		.73	.69	70.8%	.39	.90	2.37	.39
White	≤23	.48	.94	83.3%	.72	.85	8.41	.55
Black		.66	.78	75.6%	.45	.90	3.02	.43
White	≤22	.34	.97	81.9%	.76	.83	10.06	.68
Black		.55	.84	77.6%	.48	.87	3.38	.78
White	≤21	.25	.98	80.9%	.81	.81	13.68	.76
Black		.40	.89	78.9%	.50	.85	3.75	.67

Note: White participants (n = 3,940). Black participants (n = 818). Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). Positive Predictive Power (PPP). Negative Predictive Power (NPP).

Base Rate for MCI in White participants is 23.7% and 21.3% in Black participants.