Screening for Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer?s Disease among Minority
Populations using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
 
   Lead Investigator:    Sadaf Milani
   Institution      :    University of Florida
   E-Mail           :    samilani@utmb.edu
   Proposal ID      :    1074


   Publications:


1  Milani S, Marsiske M, Cottler LB, Chen X, Striley CW
   Optimal cutoffs for the Montreal Cognitive Assessment vary by race and ethnicity
   Journal Article  Alzheimers Dement,10:773-781,2018,PMC6247398

   PUBLISHED



2  Milani SA, Marsiske M, Striley C
   Screening for Cognitive Impairment among Minority Populations using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment
   2018   Abstract  Alzheimer's Association International Conference , 

   ACCEPTED



3  Milani SA, Marsiske M, Striley C
   Discriminative ability of Montreal Cognitive Assessment subtests and items in racial and ethnic minority groups
   Journal Article  Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord,33:226-232,2019,PMC6710139

   PUBLISHED





   Proposal Description:
   The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) was developed to distinguish between Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and healthy aging or AD in older adults, however, its applicability in minority populations has not yet been widely studied. Given the gap in existing MoCA literature, this proposed study aims to report on 1) overall race-specific cut-offs of the MoCA with the highest predictive validity for MCI and AD, stratified by decade of age and education  2) the discriminative ability of each MoCA subtest to distinguish between healthy aging, MCI, and AD, by race/education, stratified by decade of age and education and 3) the effect of relevant risk factors on overall MoCA scores and sub-scores by race/ethnicity, controlling for age and education.