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 Alzheimer’s Strikes Latino-Americans at a Younger AgePosted on Nov 21, 2010
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
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By Queenie, November 22, 2010 at 3:10 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.
Report thisBy alli, November 21, 2010 at 9:01 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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