AAIC 2025 Abstract

Socioeconomic deprivation and medical comorbidity burden associations with clinicopathologic characteristics in an ethnoracially diverse Alzheimer's disease autopsy series

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Abstract

Background: Population aging is expected to increase the burden of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRD), yet up to 45% of ADRD risk may be modified. Disparities in ADRD burden among Hispanic/Latino and Black/African Americans suggests that socioeconomic deprivation and medical comorbidities may influence AD risk.

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