Conditions A, Z

Also: AD, Alzheimer Dementia, Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

2x

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, and it does not affect every community …

Also: GAD, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, social phobia, specific phobia, agoraphobia

1 in 10

More than one in five Black adults experience at least one anxiety disorder at some point …

Also: AMKD, APOL1 nephropathy

~13% of African Americans carry two high-risk APOL1 variants

For decades, the higher rates of chronic kidney disease and kidney failure among Black Americans were …

Also: Reactive airway disease, Bronchial asthma

7.7x

Asthma is common across all American communities, but its consequences are not equally distributed. Black children …

Also: Eczema, AD, atopic eczema

19.3%

Atopic dermatitis affects Black children at nearly double the rate of white children, yet it is …

Also: A-Fib, AF, AFib, irregular heartbeat

~2x

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) carries a paradox for Black adults: the clinical diagnosis rate is lower than …

Also: CKD, kidney failure (stages 3 to 5), renal insufficiency

3×

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive loss of kidney function, defined as eGFR below 60 …

Also: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, chronic bronchitis

Higher

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a preventable and treatable chronic lung disease characterized by persistent …

Also: Endometrial tissue implants, adenomyosis (related)

~5 years

Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory condition in which tissue similar to the endometrium (uterine lining) grows …

Also: Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, favism

12%

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is the most common inherited enzyme disorder in the world, affecting an …

Also: GDM, pregnancy-related diabetes, diabetes diagnosed during pregnancy

8.3%

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects blood sugar during pregnancy and, if unmanaged, raises the risk of …

Also: Open-angle glaucoma, optic neuropathy

3×

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases characterized by progressive damage to the optic nerve, the …

Also: urate arthropathy, monosodium urate crystal arthropathy

7.0% in Black men

Gout is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis in the United States, and Black adults …

Also: CHF, Congestive Heart Failure, HFrEF, HFpEF

~14 years

Heart failure is not an equal-opportunity disease. Black adults develop it earlier, are hospitalized for it …

Also: High blood pressure, HTN, elevated blood pressure

56%

Hypertension is a chronic condition in which the force of blood against artery walls is persistently …

Also: Keloid scars, hypertrophic scar (related but distinct)

15×

A keloid is a pathological type of raised scar that extends beyond the boundaries of the …

Also: non-small cell lung cancer, NSCLC, small cell lung cancer, SCLC, bronchogenic carcinoma

70.2 per 100,000

Black men have the highest lung cancer incidence and mortality rate of any group in the …

Also: LN, SLE kidney involvement, WHO class lupus nephritis

30 to 50%

Lupus nephritis (LN) is kidney inflammation caused by systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), one of the most …

Also: Clinical Depression, MDD, Unipolar Depression

56.5%

Black Americans with major depressive disorder (MDD) are far less likely to receive treatment than white …

Also: malignant melanoma, acral lentiginous melanoma, ALM, subungual melanoma

71% vs 94%

Melanoma is rare in Black people compared to white people -- but when it occurs, it …

Also: Migraine headache, migraine with aura, migraine without aura, chronic migraine

~17%

Migraine affects Black adults at roughly the same rates as white adults: approximately 15 to 16 …

Also: MM, plasma cell myeloma, Kahler's disease

2×

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer of plasma cells, the antibody-producing immune cells that reside in …

Also: PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome, Stein-Leventhal syndrome

10 to 15%

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine disorders affecting people with ovaries, …

Also: PPD, peripartum depression, perinatal mood and anxiety disorder (PMAD), postnatal depression

16.5%

Postpartum depression (PPD) affects roughly 1 in 7 mothers in the United States, but Black mothers …

Also: PTSD, complex PTSD, C-PTSD

9.1%

Black Americans have the highest lifetime prevalence of PTSD among all racial and ethnic groups in …

Also: Toxemia of pregnancy, preeclampsia-eclampsia spectrum

60%

Preeclampsia is a serious hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, defined as new-onset blood pressure at or above …

Also: Prostate adenocarcinoma, PrCa, CaP

76%

Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in American men and the second leading cause …

Also: PFB, razor bumps, ingrown hairs of the beard

45-83%

Pseudofolliculitis barbae (PFB), commonly called razor bumps, affects 45 to 80 percent of Black men who …

Also: Sarcoid, Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease

3×

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease characterized by the formation of granulomas, small clusters of immune …

Also: SCD, sickle cell anemia, HbSS

1 in 365

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited red-blood-cell disorders caused by a mutation in …

Also: Obstructive sleep apnea, OSA, sleep-disordered breathing

Higher

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a chronic sleep disorder characterized by repeated partial or complete upper …

Also: Cerebrovascular Accident, CVA, Brain Attack

2x

Stroke is both preventable and time-critical. For Black adults in the United States, both of those …

Also: Lupus, SLE

3×

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease in which a dysregulated immune system generates …

Also: TNBC, ER/PR/HER2-negative breast cancer

2×

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer in which tumor cells lack expression …

Also: T2D, type 2 diabetes mellitus, adult-onset diabetes

13%

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by progressive insulin resistance and relative …

Also: Uterine leiomyoma, uterine myoma, fibroid tumors

Up to 80%

Uterine fibroids (leiomyomas) are noncancerous smooth-muscle growths of the uterine wall that range from pea-sized seedlings …

Also: Leukoderma, achromia, depigmentation

0.5 to 2%

Vitiligo is a chronic autoimmune condition in which the immune system erroneously destroys melanocytes, the cells …