More white people are dying from dementia than other races

New statistics from the CDC find that more white people are dying from dementia than those of other races. Researchers looked at dementia-related deaths, including from vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s, and found that the rate of death among white people was nearly 71 out of every 100,000 people in 2017. That same figure was 65 deaths per 100,000 for black people and 46 deaths per 100,000 for Hispanic people. The same trends were observed when researchers looked at the data by sex: White women had higher rates of dementia-related deaths compared to other women of other backgrounds. Across all races, women also had higher rates of dementia-related deaths than men.