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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 Apr 13;68(8):1763–1770. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16442

Table 2:

Percentage of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) participants with dementia, by race and ethnicity

Model-predicted dementia (2013 HRS, n=8,144)1 Survey-reported dementia (2014 HRS, n=7,829)2 Kappa statistic
Percentage with dementia, overall 13.9% 7.7% 0.490
 Non-Hispanic white 12.5% 7.1% 0.497
 Non-Hispanic black 23.1% 11.6% 0.506
 Hispanic 21.7% 9.5% 0.395
1

Reflects predicted dementia status of respondents who participated in HRS survey years 2010 and 2012, and met the inclusion criteria for the dementia prediction model (this group belongs to Box 2 of the consort diagram in Supplemental Figure S1).

2

Reflects respondents who participated in the 2014 HRS survey and reported being told by a doctor of having dementia.