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The researchers compared daily stress and cardiovascular reactivity and found that white Americans who experienced greater stress across their lifetimes showed greater reactivity to daily stress ...
There’s growing evidence that Black heart failure patients are less likely to get advanced therapies than White patients. A study published Wednesday in the journal Circulation: Heart Failure ...
The study included 200 black (101 women and 99 men) and 209 white (108 women and 101 men ... with TPR in blacks at rest and when the cardiovascular system was challenged. In whites, an increase ...
Roughly fifty thousand Black women die each year from cardiovascular disease. Various factors contribute to this disparity including obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. Compared to white women ...
Sampling was designed to achieve balanced representation in each center among white and black, men and women ... and other coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors, and 10-y change in weight ...
Findings from a new Northwestern Medicine study rebut the idea that Black individuals' higher risk of cardiovascular disease is because of biological differences. Black adults are at significantly ...
The researchers compared the burden of cardiovascular disease for Black people versus white people. The social determinants of health studied included easy access to healthcare, economic status, ...
Black women are 60 percent more likely to have high blood pressure, compared to non-Hispanic white women. Why are Black patients being disproportionately affected by heart disease? We’ve seen ...
Black Americans, in particular, experience higher rates of hypertension and cardiovascular disease-related mortality than their white counterparts in part because of their greater exposure to ...
A cardiovascular ... the risk for women and Black people in high-income countries. “If we look at the overall results, the risk estimators perform best if you are a white male living in a ...
Disparity is built into the system.” African-American men ... appropriate follow-up care), it would reduce the black-white cardiovascular mortality rate by 19 percent and shrink the total ...