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. 1995 Oct;87(10):741–745.

Neuroepidemiology of vascular and Alzheimer's dementia among African-American women.

Y Harris 1, P B Gorelick 1, S Freels 1, M Billingsley 1, N Brown 1, D Robinson 1
PMCID: PMC2607917  PMID: 7473847

Abstract

To better understand risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, demographic, medical, and other epidemiological factors were compared for 83 African-American women with Alzheimer's disease and 46 with vascular dementia. Overall, the risk-factor profiles for Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia were similar to those in other studies. However, Alzheimer's patients had a high frequency of hypertension and a relatively high frequency of diabetes mellitus. The presence of such risk factors raises the possibility that there is a vascular component to the dementia in these African-American women with Alzheimer's disease. Neuropathological studies are needed to help answer this question.

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