Dubowitz Lab

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NIH R01 · 2025

Longitudinal Examination of Neighborhood Disadvantage, Cognitive Aging, and Alzheimer's Disease Risk in Disinvested, African American Neighborhoods

Project Summary African Americans (AAs) have disproportionately higher rates and earlier onset of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) relative to White Americans. Although prior research has made significant contributions to our understanding of racial disparities in ADRD, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how the individual lived experience of being AA, including cumulative exposure to structural racism, contributes to elevated ADRD risk and the potential mechanisms underlying those risks. Building on the existing, community-based research infrastructure developed by our team’s previously funded studies, we will follow a cohort of residents (n=1133) living in two…

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