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: 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. Black American babies die of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) 2.5 times as often as white American babies. Black American men are 50% more likely to get lung cancer than white American men. Black Americans are half as likely to get flu and pneumonia vaccinations as white Americans. Continued
Why? "There are a couple of reasons," Graham says. "