Senior Housing News November 6, 2024
Researchers in a multi-institutional effort will study the potential link between chemical exposure and its impact on dementia and Alzheimer’s disease risk.
The four higher education institutions recently received a grant worth $11 million from the National Institutes of Health to analyze almost four decades of blood and urine data from 5,000 people, tracking the level of pesticides, metals and other chemicals that could contribute to dementia risk.
Participating entities include Emory University, Northwestern University, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, and University of California San Francisco. The team also will collaborate with the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
“We are striving toward understanding the origins of increased...
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