Our partner, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, recently presented research from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP) study that could offer people in their 50s a chance to know if they are at increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease. People in the study who had both a newly identified gene (TOMM40) and APOE, a well-established risk gene for Alzheimer's, showed signs similar to early stage Alzheimer’s disease on learning and memory tests. The Center is hosting the Milwaukee recruitment site for the study. Researchers at the Center currently are focused on recruiting African Americans and English-speaking Latinos who have one or both parents with Alzheimer's disease (the family history group), and people whose parents lived to old age with no signs of Alzheimer's disease or other serious memory problems (the control group). Gina Green-Harris, Outreach Program Manager at the Center, and previous supervisor of the Milwaukee WRAP program, discussed the importance of recruiting minorities into the study in a recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article: "As we become more educated about how the disease affects communities of color, we can identify how to intervene and develop techniques that are appropriate for our community." For more information on participating in the study, please contact Nia Norris, 414-219-5159, nia.norris@aurora.org.
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About the Center
The Center for Urban Population Health, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a collaboration of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and Aurora Health Care, Inc. that advances population health research and education to improve the health or urban communities.
