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Black adults face a disheartening reality – they are 54% more likely to succumb to cardiovascular disease compared to their White counterparts. This unsettling statistic persists despite significant strides in reducing overall cardiovascular mortality nationwide. A groundbreaking study by Tulane University, recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, presents a paradigm shift in understanding the root causes behind this racial divide. Surprisingly, the study points to social factors, encompassing unemployment, low income, and absence of a partner, as the driving forces of this disparity, overshadowing well-established factors such as hypertension and obesity.

About one in every thousand Black men are killed by the police in the United States, making them 2-5 times more likely to be...

Ethnicity is a major factor in determining the death rate with respect to cornavirus, a new study from the UK said. Black men and...