Table 4.

Characteristics of study participants who did not meet DSM-IV criteria for dementia at baseline.

	All	Dem-Free at FU	Dem at FU	p
N	194	166	28
Age (SD)	78.3 (6.9)	77.4 (6.6)	83.25 (6.0)	0.0001*
Education (years) (SD)	12.5 (3.3)	12.5 (3.4)	12.4 (2.9)	0.75*
Sex (% F)	84	84	82	0.78****
Race (% AA)	48.5	53	21	0.0039***
MMSE	27.3 (2.7)	27.4 (2.8)	27.0 (2.5)	0.29*
Free Recall	30.1 (6.3)	31.2 (5.8)	24.2 (6.1)	<0.0001*
Total Recall	47.5 (1.6)	47.7 (1.0)	46.2 (3.1)	0.0002*
Cue Efficiency	.978 (.055)	.985 (.041)	.938 (.097)	0.0002*
Follow up time (SD)	2.76 (.90)	2.74 (.91)	2.83 (.84)	0.06*

^*Mann-Whitney test

^***Pearson chi-squared test

^****Fisher exact test

SD: standard deviation

F: Female

AA: African American

MMSE: Mini Mental State Examination

Note: The p-values reflect comparisons between patients with and without dementia at follow-up.