{"id":52675,"date":"2017-05-04T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-diverse-and-growing-hispaniclatino-populations-in-new-york-city-share-a-common-risk-alzheimers-disease\/"},"modified":"2017-05-08T15:42:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T19:42:44","slug":"las-poblaciones-diversas-y-crecientes-de-hispanoslatinos-en-la-ciudad-de-nueva-york-comparten-un-riesgo-comun-la-enfermedad-de-alzheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/las-poblaciones-diversas-y-crecientes-de-hispanoslatinos-en-la-ciudad-de-nueva-york-comparten-un-riesgo-comun-la-enfermedad-de-alzheimer\/","title":{"rendered":"Diverse and growing Hispanic\/Latino populations in New York City share a common risk: Alzheimer&#8217;s disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 4, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The Mexican celebration of <span class=\"xn-chron\">Cinco de Mayo<\/span>, the Puerto Rican Day and Dominican Day parades are just a few of the colorful and highly anticipated community events that recognize the diverse and unique Hispanic\/Latino populations in <span class=\"xn-location\">New York City<\/span>. The Puerto Rican population of <span class=\"xn-location\">New York City<\/span> is the largest outside <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span>, and according to the NYC2010 Census, the Hispanic population in <span class=\"xn-location\">New York City<\/span> grew by 8.1 percent in the past decade, reaching 2,336,076 and accounting for 28.6 percent of the city&#8217;s population. <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnejpg7a3fleft\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"prnejpg7a3fleft\" title=\"Alzheimer's Association : NYC Chapter Logo - http:\/\/www.alz.org\/nyc\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Alzheimer's Association : NYC Chapter Logo - http:\/\/www.alz.org\/nyc\/\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/430922\/Alzheimers_Association_NYC_Chapter_Logo.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Hispanics everywhere take pride in their individual cultures, but they all share an unwelcome statistic: Hispanics are one-and-a-half times more likely to develop Alzheimer&#8217;s and other dementias than their white neighbors, and their numbers are growing every year.<\/p>\n<p>The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association reports that although the rate of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and dementia in Hispanics is higher than in whites, they are less likely than whites to have a diagnosis of the condition. According to the 2006 Health and Retirement Study (HRS), both African-Americans and Hispanics with cognitive impairment are less likely than whites to say that a doctor has told them they have a &#8220;memory-related disease.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When they are diagnosed, Hispanics and African-Americans are typically diagnosed in the later stages of the disease, when they are more cognitively and physically impaired \u2013 and therefore need more medical care. As a result, both groups use substantially more hospital, physician and home health services \u2013 and incur substantially higher costs for those services \u2013 than whites with Alzheimer&#8217;s. The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association reported that Medicare payments for Hispanics with Alzheimer&#8217;s and other dementias were 37 percent higher than those for their white counterparts. <\/p>\n<p>Genetic factors do not appear to account for the greater prevalence of \u2013 or the greater risk for developing \u2013 Alzheimer&#8217;s disease in Hispanics. However, high blood pressure and diabetes are substantial risk factors for Alzheimer&#8217;s and other dementias among all groups, and diabetes is more prevalent in the Hispanic community. These conditions, among others, may contribute to the greater prevalence of Alzheimer&#8217;s and dementia. Better management of these conditions \u2013 especially if treatment were begun in people who have these conditions in midlife \u2013 may help reduce Alzheimer&#8217;s and dementia risk among Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>To meet the urgent need for education and support in the Hispanic communities, the Alzheimer&#8217;s Association offers a wealth of Spanish-language courses on the Training and Education Center at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alz.org\/espanol\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.alz.org\/espanol<\/a>\u00a0and on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alz.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.alz.org<\/a>. These courses share important information about healthy aging, how to &#8220;Know the 10 Signs\u00ae &#8211; Early Detection Matters&#8221;, clinical trials, and legal and financial planning tips for families once a diagnosis is confirmed. The Alzheimer&#8217;s Association also offers free care consultations, both in person and confidentially online, with trained, bilingual social workers who can be reached anytime, day or night at the Helpline 800.272.3900.<\/p>\n<p>Logo &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/430922\/Alzheimers_Association_NYC_Chapter_Logo.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/430922\/Alzheimers_Association_NYC_Chapter_Logo.jpg<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 4, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The Mexican celebration of <span class=\"xn-chron\">Cinco de Mayo<\/span>, the Puerto Rican Day and Dominican Day parades are just a few of the colorful and highly anticipated community events that recognize the diverse and unique Hispanic\/Latino populations in <span class=\"xn-location\">New York City<\/span>. The Puerto Rican population of <span class=\"xn-location\">New York City<\/span> is the largest outside <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">NEW YORK<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 4, 2017<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0The Mexican celebration of <span class=\"xn-chron\">Cinco de Mayo<\/span>, the Puerto Rican Day and Dominican Day parades are just a few of the colorful and highly anticipated community events that recognize the diverse and unique Hispanic\/Latino populations in <span class=\"xn-location\">New York City<\/span>. The Puerto Rican population of <span class=\"xn-location\">New York City<\/span> is the largest outside <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}