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Age and education have been found to affect the Mini Mental State Exam
ination (MMSE) score of elderly normals, but there have been no studie
s assessing the influence of environmental and behavioral factors on t
his test, We therefore administered the MMSE to 1437 normal elderly su
bjects in the setting of a stroke prevention study and correlated thei
r results to 16 sociodemographic, environmental, and behavioral factor
s, and vascular risk factors. Study statistics composed of a multiple
logistic regression analysis and graphical models revealed the relatio
ns between variables in greater detail. Logistic regression yielded ed
ucation level, occupational status, living as a single, general life s
tress, physical strain, and physical inactivity to be independent pred
ictors of the MMSE score. Age was not included in this model, Graphica
l models demonstrated similar results, but did not include living as a
single and physical inactivity. As shown in our independence graph, g
eneral life stress is the crucial predictor and links other environmen
tal and sociodemographic variables with the test performance of elderl
y normals.