Social & behavioral research on Alzheimer's Disease and dementia in diverse populations: A bibliography

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• Auchus, A. (1997). Dementia in urban black outpatients: Initial experience at the Emory satellite clinics. Gerontologist, 37(1), 25-29.
• Bachman, D., Green, R. C., Benke, K. S., Cupples, L. A., & Farrer, L. A. (2003). Comparison of Alzheimer's disease risk factors in white and African American families. Neurology, 60(8), 1372-1374.
• Boustani, Malaz; Hall, Kathleen S.; Lane, Kathleen A.; Aljadhey, Hisham; et. al. (2007). Association between cognition and histamine-2 receptor antagonists in African Americans. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 55(8), 1248-53.
• Callahan, C. M., Hall, K. S., Hui, S. L., Musick, B. S., Unverzagt, F. W., & Hendrie, H. C. (1996). Relationship of age, education, and occupation with dementia among a community-based sample of African Americans. Archives of Neurology, 53(2), 134-140.
• Chandra, V., Ganguli, M., Ratcliff, G., Pandav, R., Sharma, S., Belle, S., et al. (1998). Practical issues in cognitive screening of elderly illiterate populations in developing countries: The Indo-US Cross-National Epidemiology Study. Aging (Milano), 10(5), 349-357.
• Crowe, M., Andel, R., Pedersen, N. L., Johannson, B., & Gatz, M. (2003). Does participation in leisure activities lead to reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease? A prospective study of Swedish twins. Journals of Gerontology (Series B), 58B(5), P249-P255.
• Green, R. C., Cupples, L. A., Go, R., Benke, K. S., Edeki, T., Griffith, P. A., et al. (2002). Risk of dementia among white and African American relatives of patients with Alzheimer disease. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 287(3), 329-336.
• Hall, K. S., Gao, S. J., Unverzagt, F. W., & Hendrie, H. C. (2000). Low education and childhood rural residence: Risk for Alzheimer's disease in African Americans. Neurology, 54(1), 95-99.
• Hargrave, R., Stoeklin, M., Haan, M., & Reed, B. (1998). Clinical aspects of Alzheimer's disease in black and white patients. Journal of the National Medical Association, 90(2), 78-84.
• Harwood, D. G., Barker, W. W., Cantillon, M., Loewenstein, D. A., Ownby, R. L., & Duara, R. (1998). Depressive symptomatology in first-degree family caregivers of Alzheimer disease patients: A cross-ethnic comparison. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 12(4), 340-346.
• Harwood, D. G., Barker, W. W., Loewenstein, D. A., Ownby, R. L., St.George-Hyslop, P., Mullan, M., et al. (1999). A cross-ethnic analysis of risk factors for AD in white Hispanics and white non-Hispanics. Neurology, 52(3), 551-556.
• Luchsinger, Jose A.; Reitz, Christiane; Patel, Bindu. (2007). Relation of diabetes to mild cognitive impairment. Archives of Neurology, 64(4), 570-75.
• Manly, Jennifer J.; Tang, Ming-X.; Schupf, Nicole; Stern, Yaakov; Vonsattel, Jean-Paul G.; Mayeux, Richard. (2008). Frequency and course of mild cognitive impairment in a multiethnic community. Annals of Neurology, 63(4), 494-506.
• Martin, G. M., & Kukull, W. A. (1996). Do cultural differences affect Alzheimer disease? JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 276(12), 993.
• Vincze, Gabor; Almos, Peter; Boda, Krisztina; Dome, Peter. (2007). Risk factors of cognitive decline in residential care in Hungary. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 22(12), 1208-1216.
• Watari, K., & Gatz, M. (2002). Dementia: A cross-cultural perspective on risk factors. Generations, 26(1), 32.
• Weiner, Myron F.; Rosenberg, Roger N.; Womack, Kyle B.; Svetlik, Doris A.; Fuller, Carey; Fields, Julie; Hynan, Linda S. (2008). Atherosclerosis risk factors in American Indians with Alzheimer disease: preliminary findings. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 22(3), 245-248.
• Weintraub, D., Raskin, A., Ruskin, P. E., Gruber-Baldini, A. L., Zimmerman, S. I., Hebel, J. R., et al. (2000). Racial differences in the prevalence of dementia among patients admitted to nursing homes. Psychiatric Services, 51(10), 1259-1264.

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