SAN DIEGO — Decline in dementia risk for Latino populations compared with white counterparts is associated with level of education across generations, a presenter said at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.
“Because Latinos face a growing burden of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, and we know that education is a well-established risk factor, we wanted to see how intergenerational education affects incident dementia,” Erika Meza, MPH, a doctoral student at the University of California, San Francisco, said during her poster presentation.