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Table 3.

Sensitivity and Specificity of Mini Mental State Exam for detecting dementia.

Study	Sample	Cut-off	Sensitivity	Specificity
Chaves and Izquierdo,1992⁵⁵	31 patients with dementia, 31 patients with major depression and 22 healthy controls	24	96%	68%
Bertolucci et al., 1994⁵⁶	94 patients with cognitive impairment and 530 adult controls	Illiterates: 13 Schooling <8 years: 18 Schooling ≥8 years: 26	82.4% 75.6% 80%	97.5% 96.6% 95.6%
Almeida, 1998⁵⁷	211 inds aged ≥60 years Dementia by CID-10	Illiterates: 19 Schooled: 23	80% 84%	71% 60%
Caramelli et al., 1999⁵⁸	Population-based sample, 1656 elderly >64 ys, 570 illiterates, 188 with dementia - 10^th , 25^th and 50^th percentiles defined	Illiterates: 15, 18, 20 Schooling: 1-3 years: 21, 23, 25 4-7 years: 22, 25, 26 >7 years: 25, 26, 28	-	-
Bertolucci et al., 2001⁵⁹	85 healthy elderly and 43 patients with AD	26	97.6%	75.3%
Brucki et al., 2003⁶⁰	433 normal individuals	Illiterates: 20 By schooling 1-4 years: 25 5-8 years: 26.5 9-11: 28 >11: 29	-	-
Laks et al., 2003⁶¹	341 elderly	Younger old: 19.9 Older old: 16.9 Illiterates: 17.1 Schooled: 22.3	-	-
Lourenço and Veras, 2006⁶²	303 elderly general outpatients 78 with dementia by DSM-IV	Illiterates: 18/19 Schooled: 24/25	73.5% 75%	73.9% 69.7%
Laks et al., 2007⁶³	870 elderly from community	Younger old Illiterates: 19.5 1-8 years: 23.9 Older old Least schooled: 18.1 Most schooled: 23.8	-	-
Castro-Costa et al., 2008⁶⁴	1558 individuals (≥60 ys) from community	General 5^th Percentile: 14 95^th Percentile: 22 60-64 years: 5^th Percentile: 17 95^th Percentile: 24 ≥65 years: 5^th Percentile: 13 95^th Percentile: 16	-	-
Lourenço et al., 2008⁶⁵	306 individuals ≥65 ys, outpatients105 sub-sample of 1 week retest	PC: 23/24	-	-
Kochhann et al., 2010⁶⁶	162 patients with dementia806 healthy elderly	Illiterates: 21 Low schooling: 22 Medium: 23 High: 24	93% 87% 86% 81%	82% 82% 87% 87%