Baltimore has one of the highest rates of Alzheimer’s disease in the country and Maryland has the highest rate among states, according to an analysis published in the Alzheimer’s Association’s online journal.
Roughly 16.6% of the 87,800 Baltimore residents who are 65 years or older are estimated to have the neurodegenerative disease, according to the study’s findings. The city tied for the highest prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease among the 3,142 jurisdictions included in the study, all of which have more than 10,000 residents 65 or older.
In Florida’s Miami-Dade County and New York’s Bronx County, 16.6% of residents 65 or older are also estimated to have Alzheimer’s, the study found. Prince George’s County ranked second in the U.S., with an estimated prevalence of 16.1%.
