A form of dementia that affects younger people is more common among Hispanics than was previously realized, according to a UT Health San Antonio study.
Although Hispanics are more likely than white people to have dementia, it previously was thought that frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, didn’t affect them, said Campbell Sullivan, who has a doctoral degree in psychology and is a clinical associate professor of neurology with the Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases at UT Health San Antonio.
But a UT Health team found that wasn’t the case. Researchers also found that Hispanics were underrepresented in previous FTD research, she said…