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Confused about the link with poverty and stress. A linked article states: "Several teams presented evidence that poverty, disadvantage and stressful life events
by raarts 8y ago
Confused about the link with poverty and stress. A linked article states: "Several teams presented evidence that poverty, disadvantage and stressful life events are strongly associated with cognitive problems in middle age and dementia later in life among African-Americans.
The findings could help explain why African-Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to develop dementia. And the research suggests genetic factors are not a major contributor."
Since there are more poor whites than African Americans, I don't understand why being poor explains African Americans being twice as likely to develop dementia?
- chasontherobot 8y agoAccording to the State of Working America: > Among racial and ethnic groups, African Americans had the highest poverty rate, 27.4 percent, followed by Hispanics at 26.6 percent and whites at 9.9 percent. [0] [0]: http://stateofworkingamerica.org/fact-sheets/poverty/ http://stateofworkingamerica.org/fact-sheets/poverty/
- raarts 8y agoUS population: African-Americans 40M, Whites 200M. People in poverty: African-Americans (27%) 10,8 million, White: (9,9%) 19,8 million. So there are twice as many poor white people as black people. How can poverty explain that black people get dementia more often? There are twice as many white poor people as there are black.