ELISE KINYANJUI '25 PUBLISHES IN ALZHEIMER'S & DEMENTIA

ST. MARY'S CITY, Md., April 27 -- St. Mary's College of Maryland issued the following news release:

Elise Kinyanjui '25, a St. Mary's College of Maryland Neuroscience and Psychology alumna, recently published an article in Alzheimer's & Dementia.Her paper, "The influence of midlife multimorbidity clusters and dementia risk: The ARIC Study", examines how different midlife comorbidities impact dementia risk using amachine‐learning approach. The study uses a machine learning model to analyze data from theAtherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) cohort, which is an ongoingcommunity‐based prospective study that began in the 1980s.

Kinyanjui emphasized why this research is important to her and to the community, noting that "indivi...