. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 24.

Published in final edited form as: Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2008 Aug 5;26(2):153–160. doi: 10.1159/000149819

Table 3.

Absolute and relative distribution of MMSE score, by housing and sex

	Living at home						Nursing home and sheltered housing
	women		men		total		women		men		total
	1895	1905	1895	1905	1895	1905	1895	1905	1895	1905	1895	1905
MMSE	n = 40	n = 71	n = 19	n = 13	n = 59	n = 84	n = 80	n = 75	n = 17	n = 11	n = 97	n = 86
24-30 points	15 (37.5)	26 (36.6)	4 (21.0)	10 (76.9)	19 (32.2)	36 (42.8)	18 (22.5)	13 (17.4)	8 (47.1)	4 (36.4)	26 (26.8)	17 (19.8)
18-23 points	12 (30.0)	22 (31.0)	9 (47.4)	1 (7.7)	21 (35.6)	23 (27.4)	26 (32.5)	22 (29.3)	5 (29.4)	4 (36.4)	31 (32.0)	26 (30.2)
0-17 points	13 (32.5)	23 (32.4)	6 (31.6)	2 (15.4)	19 (32.2)	25 (29.8)	36 (45.0)	40 (53.3)	4 (23.5)	3 (27.2)	40 (41.2)	43 (50.0)
p value	1.00		0.006		0.40		0.57		0.89		0.43

Figures are numbers of cases with percentages in parentheses. p value: as obtained by Fisher's exact test.