Op-Ed: We don't know enough about Latinos and Alzheimer's, and that's a huge problem (via latimesopinion)
And despite facing greater economic and social disadvantages, average Latino life expectancy isAdvertisement
In California, Latinos are mostly of Mexican heritage. Indeed, California was part of Mexico. And before then, indigenous people lived and developed civilizations in the Americas for over 20,000 years. Thus, the ancestry of Latinos in California, or Californios, come from heritages of three continents, Amerindian and European, and to a lesser extent African.Mexicans and Central Americans are more related to American Indians than to Spaniards and other Europeans.
We’ve already begun to fill major scientific gaps in our understanding of the genetic risks. For example, we found that prevalence of mild cognitive impairment did not vary between Latino groups as had been previously described in the medical studies. Wethat cardiometabolic risk factor, including diabetes, increased the prevalence of this kind of impairment. And we discovered that the APOE4 gene, which increases risk for Alzheimer’s disease, varied widely by Latino group.
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