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 decades ago and has been looking for answers ever since. She says the “reasons” for this discrepancy that kept cropping up didn’t make sense and were downright infuriating.
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