Alzheimer’s disease crisis growing in the Tri-Counties

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Alzheimer’s disease crisis growing across U.S. and Tri-Counties

By Annabelle Blair / Friday, May 31st, 2019 / Comments Off on Alzheimer’s disease crisis growing across U.S. and Tri-Counties

Westmont College professor Yi-Fan Lu and student Heidi Pullman work on Alzheimer’s research. Alzheimer’s disease, the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. and the third in California, is increasingly being recognized as a global public health crisis. In 2017, the number of Californians who died from Alzheimer’s was 16,238, a 268 percent increase…

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