Road to Equity in Brain Health

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY (M.S.V.E.).
² Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Center for the Study of Adversity and Cardiovascular Disease (NURTURE Center), School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San francisco, CA (M.A.A.).
³ Departments of Preventive Medicine, Medicine, and Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (D.M.L.-J.).

Mitchell S V Elkind et al. Circulation. 2022.

. 2022 May 3;145(18):e869-e871.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.059711. Epub 2022 May 2.

¹ Department of Neurology, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY (M.S.V.E.).
² Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Center for the Study of Adversity and Cardiovascular Disease (NURTURE Center), School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San francisco, CA (M.A.A.).
³ Departments of Preventive Medicine, Medicine, and Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL (D.M.L.-J.).

No abstract available

Keywords: brain; dementia; epidemiology; health equity; racial groups; risk factors.

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