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Health, United States: Spotlight Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart Disease

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

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Source Name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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US National Center for Health Statistics

Five highlights in the CDC’s most recent Health, United States report, based on data from 1999 to 2017:

  1. Black patients were more than twice as likely as Asians or Pacific Islanders to die of heart disease in both 1999 and 2017.
  2. Non-Hispanic whites are the only demographic whose rate of cardiovascular disease declined over the 18-year period.
  3. Black adults aged 20 and up were by far the most likely group to have hypertension between 2015 and 2016.
  4. Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks were most likely to have diabetes and be obese in 2015 and 2016.
  5. Total cholesterol levels were relatively similar among all demographics between 2015 and 2016.

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