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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimers Dement. 2011 Jan;7(1):74–79. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2010.11.006

Table 1.

Descriptive information from ADAMS weighted to the US population*

Diagnosis Etiology Weighted N Age MMSE CDR DSRS Blessed IADLs Del Recall ε4
Normal 15,557,113 77.84 27.84 0.12 1.67 0.31 0.22 6.34 23.5%
CIND Other 3,381,975 80.67 25.03 0.43 6.46 1.17 1.25 4.62 16.0%
CIND Prodromal AD 1,947,924 82.08 24.28 0.49 5.45 1.26 0.73 3.18 46.3%
Dementia Vascular/ other 1,004,790 82.15 16.41 1.50 21.19 5.55 3.60 1.64 39.7%
Dementia AD 2,301,398 85.71 13.78 1.85 22.28 6.94 3.20 0.58 38.8%

Weighted using ADAMS sampling weight.

Acronyms

ADAMS Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study

AD Alzheimer’s disease

CIND Cognitive impairment not dementia

CDR Clinical Dementia Rating Scale

DSRS Dementia Severity Rating Scale

Blessed Blessed Dementia Scale

IADLs Number (out of 6) of impaired instrumental activities of daily living

ε4 any apolipoprotein E ε4 allele

Del Recall: Word List Recall