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Alzheimer’s Disease: The Race Risk

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Significant racial disparities in disease characteristics such as disease prevalence, disease progression, and disease severity often indicate an issue beyond just the science. Alzheimer’s disease is no different, with current studies and research pointing to a glaring difference between the disease’s appearance and severity in black individuals versus white ones.

On this podcast, Barbara Glickstein, MPH, MS, RN, HealthCetera correspondent and public health nurse; hosts Liz Seegert, an independent health journalist and Association of Health Care Journalists’ topic leader on aging; for a discussion about the conspicuous racial disparities among those at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, those diagnosed with it, and the severity of individual Alzheimer’s cases. 

This podcast first aired on HealthCetera in the Catskills, on WIOX Radio, on January 5th, 2022.

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kai.volcy@gmail.com

Kai Volcy is a current student of Global Public Health with post-collegiate aspirations in public health activism and endocrinology. She joins the HealthCetera media and production team as a former athlete of the University of Colorado.

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