Journal
ALZHEIMERS & DEMENTIA
Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages 233-238Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2007.10.016
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race; ethnicity; Alzheimer's disease
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- NIA NIH HHS [AG 12300, P30 AG012300-15, P30 AG012300] Funding Source: Medline
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There are adequate scientific, public health, and ethical justifications for studying Alzheimer's disease (AD) in persons of varying race and ethnicity, but to be meaningful variables, race and ethnicity must be examined in context. The complex interactions between race, ethnicity, lifestyle, and environmental factors, such as climate and diet, require that future studies of AD in specific racial or ethnic groups attend to measures of racial/ethnic homogeneity and the assessment of the environment and the elements that comprise the ethnicity of groups under study. Instead of arbitrarily selecting specific racial or ethnic groups in the hope of finding important differences, it may be in the long run less costly and more efficient to recruit families with highly positive (or negative) family histories, to search within these groups for possible racial or ethnic differences, and to investigate the possible racial or ethnic reasons for those differences. (C) 2008 The Alzheimer's Association. All rights reserved.
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