Olfactory identification deficits and MCI in a multi-ethnic elderly community sample

• Published in: Neurobiology of aging Vol. 31; no. 9; pp. 1593 - 1600
• Main Authors: Devanand, D.P., Tabert, Matthias H., Cuasay, Katrina, Manly, Jennifer J., Schupf, Nicole, Brickman, Adam M., Andrews, Howard, Brown, Truman R., DeCarli, Charles, Mayeux, Richard
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Elsevier Inc 01.09.2010; Elsevier
• Subjects: Aged, 80 and over; Biological and medical sciences; Cognition Disorders - ethnology; Comorbidity; Development. Senescence. Regeneration. Transplantation; Entorhinal cortex volume; Epidemiology; Ethnicity; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Hippocampal volume; Humans; Internal Medicine; Male; Mild cognitive impairment; Neurology; New York - epidemiology; Olfaction; Olfaction Disorders - ethnology; Olfactory system and olfaction. Gustatory system and gustation; Prevalence; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Verbal recall; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs; New York; Entorhinal cortex volume; Ethnicity; Mild cognitive impairment; Olfaction; Hippocampal volume; Epidemiology; Verbal recall; Senescence; Entorhinal cortex; Central nervous system; mild cognitive impairment; Hippocampus; Encephalon

Odor identification deficits occur in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and predict clinical conversion from MCI to AD. In an epidemiologic study conducted in a multi-ethnic community elderly sample (average 80 years old), the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identificati...