Title: 8 Conditions With Higher Risk for African Americans
Headings: 8 Conditions With Higher Risk for African Americans
8 Conditions With Higher Risk for African Americans
About The Author
Sarah Lewis, PharmD

Content: Not surprisingly, African Americans are 50% more likely to suffer a stroke than Caucasians. Black men are 60% more likely to die from one. But there is good news about stroke: the death rate for African Americans age 65 and older has decreased 41% between 1999 and 2015. 6
Cancer
The overall cancer mortality rate is higher for African Americans than any other race or ethnicity. The top cancers affecting all Americans are just about the same. They include breast, colon, lung, prostate and uterine cancers. And how we treat them is the same. But Black Americans are more likely to die from them. For example, despite similar rates of developing breast cancer, African American women are 40% more likely to die from it than white women.