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Alzheimer’s Strikes Latino-Americans at a Younger Age

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Posted on Nov 21, 2010
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“Senile plaques” are seen in the cerebral cortex of a person with Alzheimer’s disease in this magnified image.

Here’s a startling statistic for you: Latino-Americans tend to get Alzheimer’s disease seven years earlier than white Americans. Researchers blame the phenomenon on limited access to medical care and lower levels of education and income.  —JCL

Los Angeles Times:

The Alzheimer’s Assn. calls the situation “a looming but unrecognized public health crisis” and predicts that Alzheimer’s and related dementias could afflict 1.3 million older Latinos by 2050, up from about 200,000 currently.

In Chicago, a push to respond is being led by Constantina Mizis, a Mexican immigrant who founded the Latino Alzheimer’s & Memory Disorders Alliance, one of the few organizations of its kind in the country.

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By Queenie, November 22, 2010 at 2:10 pm Link to this comment

alli, You make a very valid point.

My Mum died of Alzheimer’s. A slow, devastating decent into hell. She spent over 20 years working in a shoeshop, using benzene and other toxic chemicals with no mask or respirator, at her job. No one was warned about or took any precautions against the dangers back then. (1950s 1960s) I have suspected for years that it was this that finally destroyed her brain.

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By alli, November 21, 2010 at 8:01 pm Link to this comment
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i’d like to know exactly how lower access to health care, lower income and education affect a progressive neurodegenerative disease…

especially since diagnosing the disease earlier doesn’t do anything at all, since there is NO treatment

the more obvious possibility is the fact that many of these people are working in agricultural, industrial, and other dangerous fields where they are exposed to multiple toxic chemicals and are not informed about the dangers, thus leading them to not take as much preventative steps to safeguard against exposure.

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