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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is the most common inherited heart disease and a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young people, yet most people who have it live a normal lifespan once it is found and …
Postpartum hemorrhage, heavy bleeding after birth, is one of the leading causes of maternal death in the US, …
Metabolic and bariatric surgery is the most effective, most durable treatment for severe obesity and the type 2 …
Naloxone reverses an opioid overdose in minutes, it is sold over the counter without a prescription, and it …
Black women face infertility at least as often as anyone, and by several measures more often, yet they …
Black women account for 50% of new HIV diagnoses among all women in the United States, while representing …
Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of five risk factors that, together, raise the risk of heart disease and …
The weathering hypothesis, first described by researcher Arline Geronimus, holds that the sustained stress of living in a …
A transplant is the treatment that keeps most people with kidney failure alive longest, yet Black patients wait …
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Black LGBTQ+ people face the sharpest within-Black health disparities in the United States. Black men who have sex with men …
ReadBlack women in the United States face the widest maternal mortality gap in the high-income world. In 2023, the Black …
ReadBlack men develop heart failure at a median age of 39, two decades before white peers, per the CARDIA cohort …
ReadApproximately 1 in 365 Black or African American babies is born with sickle cell disease, and about 1 in 13 …
ReadBlack seniors are Medicare-enrolled at similar rates to white seniors but receive less hospice, more intensive end-of-life procedures, and fewer …
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1 in 365
Black American births inherit sickle cell disease, making it the most common genetic disease in the Black community
Updated April 1, 2026
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Black Americans fell into the Medicaid coverage gap in states that have not expanded, losing access to subsidized coverage
Updated March 30, 2026
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Black women die from pregnancy-related causes at 3.3 times the rate of white women
Updated March 15, 2026
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Environmental justice research consistently shows Black and low-income communities bear disproportionate PFAS exposure. A 2021 Nature Communications study …
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Black adults have lower rates of employer-sponsored insurance and higher Medicaid enrollment rates relative to white adults. In …
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Black women die in childbirth at 3.3 times the rate of white women in the United States (CDC …
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Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, and it does not affect …
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More than one in five Black adults experience at least one anxiety disorder at …
View guide~13% of African Americans carry two high-risk APOL1 variants
For decades, the higher rates of chronic kidney disease and kidney failure among Black …
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Asthma is common across all American communities, but its consequences are not equally distributed. …
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Atopic dermatitis affects Black children at nearly double the rate of white children, yet …
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Atrial fibrillation (AFib) carries a paradox for Black adults: the clinical diagnosis rate is …
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