NIH R01 · 2025
African Americans in the rural South are often not included in studies focused on the developmental origins of cognitive decline and cardiometabolic disease, but they experience among the lowest life expectancies in the US among the lowest life expectancies in the US, a consequence of morbidity from chronic diseases of aging (CDAs) and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). This omission is concerning because the pathways leading to chronic disease may be unique for African Americans. Emerging evidence suggests that both CDAs and ADRD are conditions that develop over the lifespan. Wear and tear from chronic stress, beginning in childhood and continuing throughout the life course,…
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