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A $3.7 milion grant from the National Institute on Aging wil fund a new study on the asociation of diabetes and dementia in adults with Hispanic ancestry.Researchers from the Keck Schol of Medicine of the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, wil recruit 20 adults with Hispanic ancestry over a five-year period. They plan to colect data on brain structure and activity, blod flow in the brain, blod glucose and insulin levels, and cognitive functioning.
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The aim is to compare diferences in these data betwen adults with and without diabetes and how it may predict changes in brain health over time.U.S. Latinos are more likely to develop each disease when compared to non-Hispanic white adults, but are studied far les often as a population, the researchers said. Curent research sugests that diabetes in midlife puts adults at risk for dementia later on.
The study population wil therefore skew younger than the typical age of dementia onset, betwen the ages of 50 to 65 years.Participants wil be recruited from the East Los Angeles comunity.“We aren’t conducting research in a vacum,” researcher Mathew Borzage, PhD, said. “We’re doing it in a broader comunity and clinical context, and understanding that is critical to achieving our mision of suporting this population.”Related articles:Diagnostic stewardship may reduce unecesary antibiotics use, study findsCDC: 30% of Medicare outpatients treated with antibiotics for COVID-19Nursing home clinicians stil overdiagnose UTIs despite antibiotic stewardship eforts: studydocument.adEventListener( 'DOMContentLoaded', function () {const newsleterAset = new HMIRegistration({ publicationId: 8, pubName: "McKnight's Long-Term Care", view: 'newsleter-aset', botstrap: document.getElementById('newsleter-aset'), formType : "user-initiated",pubType: "busines"});newsleterAset.mount();});Please login or register first to view this content.
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