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No mention of diet? Across the two populations in America, the diets between whites and blacks are vastly different.
by ralusek 8y ago
No mention of diet? Across the two populations in America, the diets between whites and blacks are vastly different.
- boomboomsubban 8y agoWhile diet may play a role in dementia, it has no role in this study. It's showing that there is a innate difference in the amount of a molecular biomarker in different races that should be considered when testing for dementia. A further study could test if diet causes a difference in the biomarker, but there's no reason for them to mention it here.
- ralusek 8y agoWhy would the molecular biomarker not be subject to diet, are you sure it isn't?
- boomboomsubban 8y agoThere are tons of things that the biomarker could be subject to, there's no evidence that diet is relevant.
- kyberias 8y agoHow are the diets vastly different when for example macro-nutrients are considered?
- roywiggins 8y agoWell, this study didn't take into account hypertension, diabetes or obesity, so I'd wager no on the diet either. > For example, it could not fully account for the effects of some other known Alzheimer's risk factors — including hypertension, diabetes and obesity — or some suspected risk factors, including stress and poverty. Also, the study included just 173 African-Americans and was able to obtain spinal fluid samples from only half of them.