Last week we looked at new research predicting that the number of people with dementia will more than double within 30 years, doubling the medical cost of dementia as well.
Today we’re looking at new research that could shed new light on understanding Alzheimer’s disease.
In one of the largest studies ever done on Alzheimer’s in African-Americans, researchers discovered that the gene variants associated with Alzheimer in people of European ancestry was the same as the one seen in African-American Alzheimer’s patients.Richard Mayeux, co-director of The Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University, was the lead author of the study.
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