"Health & Medical News"

Washington — As research findings coalesce around a collection of risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, it is becoming obvious that poor and minority populations — the ones most likely to harbor risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes –also are more likely than whites to encounter this brain disorder.

The age-specific prevalence of dementia already has been estimated to be from 14% to as much as 100% higher in blacks than in whites by the Alzheimer’s Assn., an advocacy and educational group based in Chicago. And the disease is expected to surge among Hispanics in the coming years. Currently, about 200,000 Hispanics in the U.S. have Alzheimer’s. That number could climb to 1.3 million by 2050, according to the association.

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