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  "textContent": "Attending a historically Black college or university (HBCU) can be linked to better cognitive performance decades later among Black adults, according to a study coauthored by Min Hee Kim, an assistant professor at Rutgers School of Nursing. The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, examine how institutional and social conditions shape cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Researchers believe this is the first national cohort study with a large sample of Black adults to examine how attendance at HBCUs versus predominantly white institutions relates to cognition later in life. The study sample included 1,978 Black older adults, of whom 699 (35%) attended an HBCU.",
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