Elderly eighty plus year old man with granddaughter in a home setting.Provider Magazine reported that a new study indicates “it may be more difficult to detect Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in Hispanic patients.” Researchers assessed the “autopsies of 14 Hispanic and 20 non-Hispanic persons,” finding “that autopsies of patients diagnosed with AD when they were alive – and confirmed by autopsy – indicate several cognitive issues symptomatic of the condition are less noticeable in living Latino patients.”

Because the data suggests it may be more difficult for clinicians to detect AD in its mild to moderate stages among living Latino patients compared with non-Latino patients, intervention and treatment could be delayed and less effective, the study said.

Read the full article from Provider Magazine: Dementia Symptoms Less Noticeable Among Latinos, Study Says (January 2019).

The study led by researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine’s Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.