And if you’d rather take a look at our institutional press release, you can check that out here! 🗞️
newsroom.wakehealth.edu/news-release...

If you made it this far, thank you for reading! 😊

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If you’re interested in diving deeper into the findings of this study, go give it a read here! 🔎📝

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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In the study, we call for an increased investment in grassroots initiatives and policy efforts to combat the neighborhood-level SDoH burden to remedy the disparities in ADRD outcomes! 📣

See here for some coverage of our work: www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...
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Specifically, what we found suggested that the higher SDoH burden was associated with poorer cerebrovascular health and brain structure among Black participants in the study. 🧠‼️

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So, what did we find?🔎

First, we found that Black participants in the study faced a higher burden of place-based SDoH. 🗺️

Second, we found that these higher burdens of SDoH were associated with worse biomarker outcomes among Black participants.‼️

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This study was conducted within the Wake Forest Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, and included 679 older adults across the cognitive spectrum! 🧓🏼👵🏼🧓🏾👵🏾

The primary research question in the study was to examine the relationships of place-based SDoH with biomarkers of dementia.❓

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All of this will also eventually culminate in my life’s work to intervene on those social and structural determinants to improve health for all!

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I’m excited to see the work from my dissertation get out there over the coming months, and to further build upon this work to illustrate the influence of the social and structural determinants of health on dementia.

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This is so dystopian… 😭😭 I’m so sorry this happened! Truly, what does qualifying for the paramedics even mean?!

I had to look back at our initial analytic plans and proposals that we drafted, and it was in August 2022 - it caught me off guard too! 😂

Absolutely - this project wouldn't have happened without help from @dusetzinas.bsky.social and Shelley (who isn't on Bluesky yet)! Can't thank them both enough!😊

If you’ve made it this far and would like to learn more, go give it a read for yourself here: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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I truly cannot thank this entire team enough for their help in getting this out! (@dusetzinas.bsky.social)

And a special thanks to my mentor, sponsor, and friend in this work, @uressien.bsky.social, for giving me the opportunity to lead this project after we first discussed it back in 2022!

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Our biggest takeaway from these findings is that we must understand the practices that contributed to the narrowing of these disparities, so we may develop more implementation strategies towards improving equitable cancer care! 🎯

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Our main finding was a narrowing of racial and ethnic disparities from 2010 to 2019! 📉

In other words, although Black and Hispanic beneficiaries had lower rates of receipt of ERBB2/HER2-targeted therapies than white beneficiaries in 2010, this disparity was no longer seen in 2019.

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