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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jessica Glenza

Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts

Man in baseball cap stands at metal gate between yard and sidewalk in morning sun.
Roderick Blair, a 70-year-old participant in the Alzheimer’s trial, outside his home in Pittsburgh on 14 September. Photograph: Justin Merriman/The Guardian

Scientific funding cuts imposed by the Trump administration may force researchers to close a study on Alzheimer’s disease risk among 600 ageing people without sharing the results of cognitive tests with participants – even though researchers have all the data to do so.

The Trump administration canceled a federal research grant studying two low-income, majority Black neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in August. Researchers were given 90 days to shut down the study – more than five months earlier than planned. Now, they lack the time and money to assess data collected from trial participants.

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