Heart Disease and African Americans

Office of Minority Health Resource Center: In 2018, African Americans were 30 percent more likely to die from heart disease than non-Hispanic whites.

Although African American adults are 40 percent more likely to have high blood pressure, they are less likely than non-Hispanic whites to have their blood pressure under control.

African American women are 60 percent more likely to have high blood pressure, as compared to non-Hispanic white women.

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