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The Lancet: Deeply entrenched racial and geographic health disparities in the USA have increased over the last two decades—as life expectancy gap widens to 20 years

The differences in US health and life expectancy based on where an individual lives, the economic conditions in that location, and their racial and ethnic identity have increased over the last two decades, leading to substantial health disparities that divide the USA into ten mutually exclusive populations, which the study authors term “The Ten Americas”.

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AARP and leading research organizations announce risk factors of dementia research findings

Today, AARP, the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative), and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington announced the Dementia Risk Reduction Project, a new collaboration to study how factors – air pollution, alcohol use, depression, diabetes, high body mass index, hearing loss, hypertension, low education, physical inactivity, social isolation, smoking, and traumatic brain injury—vary by state and their correlation to dementia.