Chinese-Language Montreal Cognitive Assessment for Cantonese or Mandarin Speakers: Age, Education, and Gender Effects

Table 5

Comparisons of age, education, testing language, and MoCA-ChLA scores between men and women.

Characteristics	Men (n = 458)	Women (n = 734)	P value^1	Adjusted P value^2
Age in years, mean ± SD	63.8 ± 10.4	61.7 ± 9.6	0.0003
Years of education, mean ± SD	12.2 ± 3.9	11.3 ± 3.9	0.0002
Testing language, no. (%)
Cantonese	212 (46.3)	363 (49.5)	0.39
Mandarin	245 (53.5)	367 (50)
Taiwanese	1 (0.2)	4 (0.5)
Unadjusted MoCA, mean ± SD	23.9 ± 4	23.8 ± 4.3	0.52
Adjusted MoCA^2, lsmean ± SE	23.8 ± 0.1	23.8 ± 0.2		0.59

¹From Wilcoxon rank sum test for continuous variables and Fisher exact test for testing language.
²P value obtained from nonparametric analysis of covariance with adjustment for age and education.