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When it comes to Alzheimer’s, the degenerative brain disease that has no cure, inequity is the name of the game: Nearly two-thirds of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer’s are women, and Black Americans are twice as likely as non-Hispanic whites to develop Alzheimer’s.
The sobering fact is that by the time we reach age 65, our lifetime risk of developing the disease sits at 1 in 5, and one large study estimates that by 2050, as many as 9 million women will have Alzheimer’s disease.
Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D. , the director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona, noticed this alarming trend three…
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