Mon 11 Feb 2008
Darryl White had no idea that diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors put him in line for dementia — including Alzheimer’s.
Now he does, but it’s too late: White, a 61-year-old African-American from a suburb of Madison, Wis., was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s more than four years ago when he was in his late 50s and lost his job as a parole officer because of the memory loss.
A survey of more than 2,000 people nationwide, including 1,210 black Americans, shows most people don’t know about the connection between cardiovascular conditions and the risk for dementia.