caa a22 4500 38635216X CHVBK 20180307111837.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0033291700024375 doi S0033291700024375 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0033291700024375 The influence of education, social class and sex on Mini-Mental State scores [Elektronische Daten] The Mini-Mental State Examination was administered to 1865 general-practice patients aged 75 years and over. Even when demented cases were removed from analysis, respondents with relatively little education, together with those in social classes Ill-manual and below, were significantly more likely to score below the cut-off point used in North American community surveys to denote ‘cognitive impairment'. Education and social class influenced scores on all sections within the MMSE with the exception of registration. Sex influenced scores on tests of calculation and spelling backwards but had no effect on total scores. These findings emphasize the importance of investigating low scorers in more detail before making a diagnosis of dementia. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 O'connor D. W. Hughes Hall, Cambridge Pollitt P. A. Hughes Hall, Cambridge Treasure F. P. Hughes Hall, Cambridge Brook C. P. B. Hughes Hall, Cambridge Reiss B. B. Hughes Hall, Cambridge Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/3(1989-08), 771-776 0033-2917 19:3<771 1989 19 PSM https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700024375 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291700024375 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- O'connor D. W. Hughes Hall, Cambridge NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pollitt P. A. Hughes Hall, Cambridge NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Treasure F. P. Hughes Hall, Cambridge NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brook C. P. B. Hughes Hall, Cambridge NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Reiss B. B. Hughes Hall, Cambridge NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Psychological Medicine Cambridge University Press 19/3(1989-08), 771-776 0033-2917 19:3<771 1989 19 PSM CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge