UNASSIGNED: Previously we demonstrated sex differences in episodic memory in healthy elderly and suggested that normative data be separated by sex. The present study extended the exploration of sex differences on memory measures into two clinical populations, @entity73 ( @entity73 ) and @entity195 ( @entity195 ). Seventy-six subjects with @entity73 and 101 subjects with @entity195 diagnosed by a multidisciplinary team were included. These two groups were also compared to a group of 177 healthy elderly control @entity1 . Sex differences on the Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT; total and delayed recall) raw scores and Brief Visuospatial Memory Test-Revised (BVMT-R) were demonstrated within the healthy but not the @entity73 or @entity195 groups. Calculating z scores by sex for both dementing groups based on the healthy controls suggested a larger performance gap between healthy and dementing @entity1 than between healthy and dementing @entity1 . @entity73 females were on average 0.48 standard deviations lower for total verbal learning compared to healthy female controls than were @entity73 males when compared to healthy male controls. For verbal delayed recall the gap was even larger (SD = 1.09). Similarly, on the BVMT-R, a measure of visual memory, the difference was 0.60 standard deviations for total visual learning and 0.99 standard deviations for delayed recall. This same sex difference, with females showing greater impairment compared to the controls group than did the males, was also present within the @entity195 group. The greater @entity2414 in dementing females rather than males when compared to sex-matched healthy controls was unlikely to be due to more severe illness since females performed equivalently to males on the Clinical @entity303 Rating Scale, Mini-Mental Status Examination, and @entity303 Rating Scale, and were also similar for age, education, and apolipoprotein status. The present study suggested relatively greater @entity2414 in females with @entity73 or @entity195 than in controls.

Greater XXXX in dementing females than males relative to sex-matched healthy controls.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'women', 'men'] @entity303 :: ('MESH:D003704', 'Disease') :: ['Dementia'] @entity73 :: ('MESH:D003072', 'Disease') :: ['MCI', 'mild cognitive impairment'] @entity195 :: ('MESH:D000544', 'Disease') :: ['AD', "Alzheimer's disease"] @entity2414 :: ('MESH:D008569', 'Disease') :: ['memory impairment']
@entity2414 :: (MESH:D008569,Disease) :: ['memory impairment']
