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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2019 Jul-Sep;33(3):226–232. doi: 10.1097/WAD.0000000000000310

Table 1:

Characteristics of NACC study participants included in these analyses, by race/ethnicity (n=3,895).

Characteristic Total
(n=3,895)
Non-Hispanic Whites
(n=3,145; 80.7%)
Non-Hispanic Blacks
(n=586; 15.0%)
Hispanics
(n=164; 4.2%)
Mean Age (SD) 69.7 (9.8) 69.6 (10.0) 70.1 (8.7) 68.9 (9.9)
SexA
 Male 1683 (43.2%) 1461 (46.5%) 163 (27.8%) 59 (36.0%)
 Female 2212 (56.8%) 1684 (53.6%) 423 (72.2%) 105 (64.0%)
Years of EducationA, B
 ≤12 611 (15.7%) 404 (12.9%) 153 (26.1%) 54 (32.9%)
 13–16 1706 (43.8%) 1372 (43.6%) 263 (44.9%) 71 (43.3%)
 >16 1578 (40.5%) 1369 (43.5%) 170 (29.0%) 39 (23.8%)
Cognitive StatusA, C
 Normal 1886 (48.4%) 1469 (46.7%) 345 (58.9%) 72 (43.9%)
 MCI 936 (24.0%) 733 (23.3%) 158 (27.0%) 45 (27.4%)
 Dementia 1073 (27.6%) 943 (30.0%) 83 (14.2%) 47 (28.7%)
MoCA ScoreA, B
 ≥26 1461 (37.5%) 1268 (40.3%) 157 (26.8%) 36 (22.0%)
 <26 2434 (62.5%) 1877 (59.7%) 429 (73.3%) 128 (78.1%)

Post-hoc Bonferroni correction to account for multiple comparisons was conducted and p<0.003 was considered statistically significant

A

p<0.003 between non-Hispanic Whites and non-Hispanic Blacks

B

p<0.003 between non-Hispanic Whites and Hispanics

C

p<0.003 between non-Hispanic Blacks and Hispanics