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Researchers launch $3.7 million study on how structural racism accelerates aging in African Americans
Researchers from Rutgers University and Michigan State University have received a five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging to study the long-term effects of structural racism on cognitive aging, physical decline, and frailty in Black Americans.