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MINNEAPOLIS - Middle-age and older people living in more disadvantaged neighborhoods areas with higher poverty levels and fewer educational and employment opportunities had more brain shrinkage on brain scans and showed faster decline on cognitive tests than people living in neighborhoods with fewer disadvantages, according to a study published in the April 14, 2021, online issue of
Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers say such brain aging may be a sign of the earliest stages of dementia. Worldwide, dementia is a major cause of illness and a devastating diagnosis, said study author Amy J. H. Kind M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison. There are currently no treatments to cure the disease, so identifying possible modifiable risk factors is important. Compelling evidence exists that the social, economic, cultural and physical conditions in which humans live may affect hea
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Quantification of Potential Inequities in Breast Cancer Incidence in New Mexico Through Bayesian Disease Mapping ORIGINAL RESEARCH Volume 18 March 11, 2021
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The SEER registry yielded 39,293 people living in New Mexico aged 15 or older who received a diagnosis of breast cancer, 38,977 of which were women. Of these, 13,135 were diagnosed from 2005 through 2014. County of residence was known for 12,974 of these. Among those with known county of residence, 8,794 were non-Hispanic, and 8,461 were American Indian/Alaska Native (567) or White (7,894).
Figure 1.
Data flow diagram describing the selection of New Mexico women with breast cancer for inclusion in a study of potential inequities in breast cancer incidence among non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native and non-Hispanic White women. Abbreviation: SEER, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program.