Ethnicity Breakdown
The majority of the East Boston cohort was white, and many had an Italian-American background.
Diagnosis & Evaluation Methods
For a detailed description of screening protocol and dementia diagnoses, see Hebert et al. (1995).
References
Hebert LE, Scherr PA, Beckett LA, Albert MS, Pilgrim DM, Chown MJ, et al. Age-specific incidence of Alzheimer's disease in a community population. JAMA. 1995 May 3;273(17):1354-1359.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Description & Citation--Study No. 9915. Available at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/ICPSR/STUDY/09915.xml. Accessed Aug 28, 2009.
Morris MC, Scherr PA, Hebert LE, Glynn RJ, Bennett DA, Evans DA. Association of incident Alzheimer disease and blood pressure measured from 13 years before to 2 years after diagnosis in a large community study. Arch Neurol. 2001 Oct;58(10):1640-1646.