{"id":304824,"date":"2024-05-17T18:36:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/black-adults-at-risk-for-alzheimers-disease-live-in-more-polluted-areas-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T18:36:16","slug":"black-adults-at-risk-for-alzheimers-disease-live-in-more-polluted-areas-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/black-adults-at-risk-for-alzheimers-disease-live-in-more-polluted-areas-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Black adults at risk for Alzheimer\u2019s disease live in more polluted areas, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Figure portrays the mean values of all Environmental Burden indicators by race\/ethnicity. Credit: Journal of Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Reports (2024). DOI: 10.3233\/ADR-240020 A study by Duke and Columbia Universities finds older, non-white adults are more likely to live in areas with higher air pollution and near toxic disposal sites, among or environmental injustices, potentially underlying their cognitive health. &#8220;A lot of money has been spent on understanding the genetics and pathological characterization of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease,&#8221; said P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University&#8217;s <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/black-adults-at-risk-for-alzheimers-disease-live-in-more-polluted-areas-study-finds\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure portrays the mean values of all Environmental Burden indicators by race\/ethnicity. Credit: Journal of Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Reports (2024). DOI: 10.3233\/ADR-240020 A study by Duke and Columbia Universities finds older, non-white adults are more likely to live in areas with higher air pollution and near toxic disposal sites, among or environmental injustices, potentially underlying their <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/black-adults-at-risk-for-alzheimers-disease-live-in-more-polluted-areas-study-finds\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}