A new report has stressed that with deaths from heart diseases and many forms of cancer steadily dipping, living longer has managed to put more and more people at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. The report also revealed that African-Americans and Hispanics are particularly vulnerable to the brain wasting condition as they grow older.

As has been shared by the Alzheimer's Association's report released today, entitled "2010 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures", as many as 5.3 million people are currently living with Alzheimer's and other types of dementia. African Americans are almost two times more likely than Whites to develop Alzheimer's and other dementia form.

Hispanics, on the other hand, are nearly one and a half times more at risk to be hit with the condition.

Maria Carrillo, the Alzheimer's Association's Senior Director of Medical and Scientific Relations, has stressed that higher rates of diabetes and heart disease in the African-American and Hispanic communities could probably be linked to increased rates of dementia.