- Blacks in the US about 2X more likely to get Alzheimer's July 2023
- African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? Washington Post June 2017
- Alzheimer’s Disease In African Americans: Risk Factors And Challenges For The Future July 2014
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- VitaminDWiki - Blacks die more often than whites of many diseases (they have less vitamin D) – 2012 contains
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Blacks in the US about 2X more likely to get Alzheimer's July 2023
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African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s. Why? Washington Post June 2017
- “Despite representing more than 20 percent of the 5.5 million Americans who have the disease, African Americans account for only 3 to 5 percent of trial participants, according to researchers”
- The word VITAMIN does not occur once in the article
Alzheimer’s Disease In African Americans: Risk Factors And Challenges For The Future July 2014
- About 2X more; Free PDF
VitaminDWiki - Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D contains
FACT - - People with dark skins have more health problems and higher mortality rate than those with light skins
Dark Skin studies: Pregnancy (
FACT - - People with dark skins have low levels of vitamin D
FACT - - People with light skins who have low vitamin D have health problems
OBSERVATION - - The health problems of whites with low level of vitamin D are similar to those with dark skins
CONCLUSION - - People with dark skins have more health problems due to low levels of vitamin D
African American Health Disparities are associated with low Vitamin D - Grant Feb 2021
Low Vitamin D increases health problems - independent of skin color30 studies), Genetics ( 13 studies), Vitamin D Binding Protein ( 8 studies), Vitamin D Receptor ( 7 studies), Diabetes ( 24 studies), Cardiovascular ( 18 studies), Mortality ( 12 studies), Intervention ( 16 studies) Click here to see the studies
VitaminDWiki - Blacks die more often than whites of many diseases (they have less vitamin D) – 2012 contains
Cancer Facts & Figures for African Americans Cancer.org
- “African Americans have the highest death rate and shortest survival of any racial and ethnic group in the US for most cancers”
- Has a huge number of tables and charts, Note: Vitamin D is not mentioned
Leading Causes of Death as of March 2018
All Ages Death rate Black White Ratio Heart diseases 217 171 1.27 Cancer 199 170 1.17 Cerebrovascular diseases 51 36 1.4 Diabetes 40 19 2.0 Rates per 100,000 Age adjusted Non-Hispanic
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6 Items in both categories Cognition and Skin-Dark - Less cognitive decline in older blacks getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D daily for years (VITAL, etc. post analysis) – RCT Dec 2021
- African Americans are more likely than whites to develop Alzheimer’s (Vitamin D)
- IQ levels around the world are falling (perhaps lower Vitamin D, Iodine, or Omega-3)
- Senior Blacks with low vitamin D were 2X more likely to experience cognitive decline 5 years later – March 2018
- Blacks with strokes having low Vitamin D were 3 times more likely to have cognitive impairment – Nov 2016
- Vitamin D Helps Atlanta High School Athletes - Feb 2012
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