Multilevel measures of socioeconomic disparities impact brain health and dementia across the Americas
Agustina Legaz, Raul Gonzalez‐Gomez, Joaquín Migeot, Stefanie Danielle Pina Escudero, Florencia Altschuler, Agustin Ibañez · 2025
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Agustina Legaz and co-authors study how social inequality shapes brain health across the Americas in a 2025 report. Latin America carries steep inequality and high rates of Alzheimer's disease and a related degeneration. The team asked how social disadvantage affects brain volume and wiring in patients and controls from Latin America and the United States.
Three measures were used: years of schooling, a shared index of social conditions, and national income inequality. Lower schooling tracked smaller brain volume and weaker wiring in Latin American groups. Adverse social conditions also separated patients from controls and tracked worse thinking. Higher income inequality tracked shrinkage in memory and emotion areas, with stronger effects in Latin America. The authors say social policy is part of brain health policy.
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| CREATOR | Agustina Legaz, Raul Gonzalez‐Gomez, Joaquín Migeot, Stefanie Danielle Pina Escudero, Florencia Altschuler, Agustin Ibañez |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |