JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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To report the distribution of Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) scores by age and educational level. ⋯ Cognitive performance as measured by the MMSE varies within the population by age and education. The cause of this variation has yet to be determined. Mini-Mental State Examination scores should be used to identify current cognitive difficulties and not to make formal diagnoses. The results presented should prove to be useful to clinicians who wish to compare an individual patient's MMSE scores with a population reference group and to researchers making plans for new studies in which cognitive status is a variable of interest.
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To determine the effects of female gender on long-term survival and subsequent coronary heart disease events in a population developing first clinical manifestations of coronary artery disease. ⋯ In this population, women with angina pectoris as an initial diagnosis, but not those with myocardial infarction or sudden unexpected death, have longer survival and lower risk of subsequent myocardial infarction/cardiac death than do men with the same presentation and of a similar age.