Study Suggests Alzheimer's Disease May Develop Differently In African-Americans

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Black Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer's -- despite appearing to have lower levels of a toxic substance associated with the disease, researchers say.

 

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Question: This article interchange w/Black - Is the study truly applicable to all Black ethnic/cultural groups? same w/ using white. Also, after reading article/headline the Call to Action is get “minorities” as subjects.

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or maybe they are on the wrong track. Let's try looking at medications, diet, exercise, alcohol consumption, stress levels to name a few.

WOW!! Intresting Study we will post this to our 'Twitter Rants' section for Kind of hard to believe considering Whites make up a Majority of Patients with Dementia

Alzheimer's is racist.

Maybe chronic stress levels from living in a racist culture affect the genome over generations?

Prolly from 400 years of shitty water being piped to our side of town. I’m just guessing tho. I’m not a doctor.

We WANT to forget

Black people are no different than anyone else. When is this stuff going to stop?

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