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We hypothesized that women with Alzheimer disease (AD) would perform worse on a test of semantic memory but not on tests of other cognitive domains. We did not expect that women without dementia would perform more poorly than men without dementia on the same task.

To explore the specificity of a semantic memory deficit among women with AD by exploring gender differences among a group of subjects with vascular dementia (VD).

A case-control study in which differences between men and women were explored using regression models to control for the potentially confounding effects of age, education, duration of dementia, and severity of dementia.

Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Consortium of Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California. Subjects: Volunteers, recruited from the community or clinic referrals, who met clinical criteria for AD (n=159) or VD (n=117 …