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Article: The leading cause of memory loss for Blacks
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- Westside Gazette
- Article date:
- August 6, 2003
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LOS ANGELES, Calif.-- Memory: Imagine, being a stranger in your own mind. When "Elsie" wakes up in the morning, she doesn't know where she is. She looks in the mirror and she can't remember her name. She stares down the hall at her family eating breakfast at the kitchen table. She wonders who those people are. Elsie" suffers from stroke-related memory loss the leading cause of memory loss for African-Americans. Stroke-related memory loss known as vascular dementia, accounts for 10 percent of all dementias in the general population but up to 50 percent of dementias among African-Americans.
"In my practice, I see that vascular dementia [stroke-related memory loss] is particularly prevalent in ...