Causes of the Racial Disparities in the Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

The risk of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is not uniform across race-specific subpopulations: Blacks face approximately 50% higher risk of AD onset compared to Whites(Hazard Ratio=1.50; 95%CI:1.46-1.54). We used Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, modified for censored data, to explain the disparities in the r...

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Autores principales: Nikitin, Stanislav Kolpakov, Yashkin, Arseniy, Kravchenko, Julia, Akushevich, Igor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8680028/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.227

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8680028/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.227

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