Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans

Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans
The Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans (STAR), initiated in 2018, is an ongoing cohort of Black or African American individuals examining lifecourse risk and protective factors of cognitive aging. Goals of the study are to understand the trajectory of normal cognitive aging from midlife to late life, the burden of cognitive impairment among this population, and identify risk and protective factors related to healthy brain aging among Black and African American individuals, an understudied and rapidly expanding segment of the elderly population at higher risk for dementia.
Funder: National Institute on Aging

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