North Texas can help solve the Alzheimer’s puzzle with ambitious study | Opinion
at Fort Worth recently received $149 million in federal funding to study Alzheimer’s disease. This is a big deal for North Texas, given the scope and ambition of this study.
Much of what we know about Alzheimer’s is still limited, and there is a need to understand not only the biological factors but also the sociocultural conditions underlying the disease. One of the mysteries of this neurodegenerative disease is that it does not affect all racial and ethnic groups equally — older Black Americans, for example, are twice as likely to have Alzheimer’s or other dementias as white Americans, andThe current Health & Aging Brain Study began 10 years ago and is the largest research project to focus on racial and ethnic groups. It already has 3,000 participants over the age of 60.
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