Provides normative data and clinical cutoffs for neuropsychological assessment in middle-aged and older adults to aid cognitive impairment diagnosis in primary care.
The Longitudinal Study on Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) provided normative data based on a unique selected set of cognitively normal subjects. Normative groups were selected based on age and education, and the battery was sensitive to the presence of a depressive episode. We suggested clinical cutoffs for the tests in this battery that could be used in primary care settings to improve the accurate diagnosis of cognitive impairment.
Bertola et al. (Wed,) studied this question.