Title: The 7 Deadliest Diseases For Blacks | BlackDoctor.org - Where Wellness & Culture Connect
Headings: The 7 Deadliest Diseases For Blacks
The 7 Deadliest Diseases For Blacks
Why These Disparities?
Black Americans & Lung Disease
Blacks & Heart Disease
Blacks & Diabetes
Blacks & Sickle Cell Anemia
How Are These Disparities Being Dealt With For The Future?
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Content: This predisposes Blacks to more heart disease, kidney disease, stroke and heart failure.” Clinical trials show Blacks and whites respond differently to treatments for high blood pressure. Indeed, treatment guidelines suggest that doctors should consider different drugs based on a patient’s race. But Yancy says that a closer look at the data shows that race tends to be a marker for more complicated high blood pressure treatment. “Data suggests that all therapies do equally well — but patients at higher risk need more intensive therapy,” he says. A similar situation exists for heart failure. A promising treatment for heart failure didn’t seem to be working — until researchers noticed that it worked much better for Black patients than for white patients. A study of Black patients confirmed this finding — and provided tantalizing evidence that the drug will help patients of all races with certain disease characteristics. Blacks & Diabetes
Blacks have twice the risk of diabetes as whites. In addition, Blacks with diabetes have more serious complications — such as loss of vision, loss of limbs, and kidney failure — than whites, notes Maudene Nelson, RD, certified diabetes educator at Naomi Barry Diabetes Center at Columbia University.