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Sherman A1

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Wed Jan 12, 2022, 05:44 PM Jan 2022

Wash U researchers seek to unlock Alzheimer's by recruiting more Black participants

Black Americans are about twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as non-Hispanic white Americans.

But historically, clinical studies have recruited mostly white participants.

Washington University associate neurology professor Joyce Balls-Berry, a Black woman herself, is on a mission to change that.

She received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institute of Aging to enroll 2,000 Black research participants from Missouri and Illinois for Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related studies.

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2022-01-07/alzheimers-researchers-seek-more-black-participants

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