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The prevalence of Alzheimer neuropathologic lesions is similar in blacks and whites.
Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology - 1 Dec 2006
Riudavets Miguel A, Rubio Ana, Cox Christopher, Rudow Gay, Fowler David, Troncoso Juan C
Abstract excerpt
Alzheimer disease is the most common dementia in older Americans, but its impact on blacks is not clearly understood. We examined prospectively 200 autopsy brains at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Maryland and compared the frequency and severity of Alzheimer lesions in blacks and whites. Histologic sections of the hippocampus and entorhinal and neocortices were immunostained for Abeta and tau...
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