Title: Why 7 Deadly Diseases Strike Blacks Most
Headings: Why 7 Deadly Diseases Strike Blacks Most
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Why 7 Deadly Diseases Strike Blacks Most
Health care disparities heighten disease differences between African-Americans and white Americans.

Content: There are health disparities. There are things that may have more sinister origins in institutionalized racism. But we as doctors need to spend more time recognizing these disparities and addressing them -- together with our patients -- on a very individual level." Black Americans and Lung Disease
A 2005 report from the American Lung Association shows that black Americans suffer far more lung disease than white Americans do. Some of the findings: Black Americans have more asthma than any racial or ethnic group in America. And blacks are 3 times more likely to die of asthma than whites. Black Americans are 3 times more likely to suffer sarcoidosis than white Americans. The lung-scarring disease is 16 times more deadly for blacks than for whites. Black American children are 3 times as likely as white American children to have sleep apnea.