diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index abc55b3..fb44882 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -1 +1,2 @@ samples/ +cleaned/ diff --git a/authors.py b/authors.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a3b116 --- /dev/null +++ b/authors.py @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +import csv +import datetime + +INPUT_CSV_NAME = 'black_news' +INPUT_FILE_PATH = 'black_news.csv' +OUTPUT_FILE_BASE = 'cleaned/cleaned_' + +def main(): + sentences = [] + with open(INPUT_FILE_PATH, mode='r') as csv_file: + csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter=',') + line_count = 0 + invalid_count = 0 + for row in csv_reader: + author = row[2].strip() + if (author != ''): + sentences.append(author) + line_count += 1 + else: + invalid_count += 1 + print("Initial Sentence Lines: ", line_count) + print("Invalid Count: ", invalid_count) + + sentences = list(set(sentences)) + print("Num Unique Sentence Lines: ", len(sentences)) + + write_time = datetime.datetime.now() + output_file = OUTPUT_FILE_BASE + "_" + INPUT_CSV_NAME + "_" + str(write_time) + '.csv' + with open(output_file, mode='a') as out_file: + for cnt, sent in enumerate(sentences): + out_file.write(sent + '\n') + +main() \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/black_news.csv b/black_news.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f908ec8 --- /dev/null +++ b/black_news.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2322 @@ +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20080911/cdc-young-black-men-get-most-hiv +","Sept. 11, 2008 -- HIV is striking African-Americans with ""alarming"" ferocity, according to a new CDC report.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20080911/cdc-young-black-men-get-most-hiv +",Young (aged 13-29) black men who have sex with men get HIV more often than any other age/racial group.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20080911/cdc-young-black-men-get-most-hiv +",African-American women are 15 times more likely to get HIV than are white women.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20080911/cdc-young-black-men-get-most-hiv +",African-American men are six times more likely to get HIV than are white men.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20080911/cdc-young-black-men-get-most-hiv +","African-Americans get nearly half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. +Men who have sex with men get more than half of all new HIV infections in the U.S. +Among white gay/bisexual men, those aged 30-39 and 40-49 get the most new HIV infections.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20080911/cdc-young-black-men-get-most-hiv +","The number of new HIV infections among young black men who have sex with men is alarming,"" Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, director of the CDC's division of HIV/AIDS, said at a news conference held to announce the findings.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20080911/cdc-young-black-men-get-most-hiv +","No less alarming is the astonishingly heavy impact of HIV on African-American women, says Richard Wolitski, PhD, acting director of the CDC's division of HIV/AIDS prevention.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20080911/cdc-young-black-men-get-most-hiv +","""A range of issues contributes to disproportionate HIV risk for African-Americans, such as poverty, stigma, lack of access to health care, and higher rates of sexually transmitted diseases,"" Wolitski said at the news conference.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20080911/cdc-young-black-men-get-most-hiv +",Black women face additional challenges such as power imbalances in sexual relationships with men.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20080911/cdc-young-black-men-get-most-hiv +","And he said that the CDC is working to expand existing HIV prevention programs, especially for African-American men who have sex with men.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20130315/vitamin-d-supplements-tied-to-lower-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","Black Americans who take vitamin D supplements may significantly lower their blood pressure, a new study suggests.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20130315/vitamin-d-supplements-tied-to-lower-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","Compared with other races, blacks in the United States are more likely to have vitamin D deficiency and more likely to have high blood pressure,"" said lead researcher Dr. John Forman, an assistant professor of medicine at the renal division of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20130315/vitamin-d-supplements-tied-to-lower-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","But among the black study participants, three months of supplemental vitamin D was associated with a drop in systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) of up to 4 mm Hg, the researchers found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20130315/vitamin-d-supplements-tied-to-lower-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","If our findings are confirmed by other studies, then vitamin D supplementation may be a useful means of helping black individuals lower their blood pressure,"" Forman said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20130315/vitamin-d-supplements-tied-to-lower-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","In addition, because many black Americans are deficient in vitamin D, taking a supplement may benefit their health even more, said Holick, who was not involved with the study.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20130315/vitamin-d-supplements-tied-to-lower-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","""We are now beginning to believe that a lot of the health disparities between blacks and whites are due to vitamin D deficiency, including the risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancers and even infectious disease,"" he said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20130315/vitamin-d-supplements-tied-to-lower-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","For the study, published online March 13 and in the April print issue of the journal Hypertension, Forman's team randomly assigned 250 black participants to one of three doses of vitamin D supplements or an inactive placebo.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20130315/vitamin-d-supplements-tied-to-lower-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","""Hypertension is a leading cause of stroke, heart attack, heart failure, kidney failure and premature cardiovascular death, particularly in black men and women,"" said Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a spokesman for the American Heart Association, and a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20130315/vitamin-d-supplements-tied-to-lower-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","Other studies of the effects of vitamin D on blood pressure have been inconsistent and most studies have not included sufficient numbers of black men and women or studied higher doses of vitamin D, he said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20110906/african-american-kids-may-have-more-food-allergies +","African-American children in the U.S. have a higher rate of food allergies than children of other races, and new research suggests that genetic and environmental factors may explain why.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20110906/african-american-kids-may-have-more-food-allergies +",Researchers found self-reported black race to be associated with a higher risk for all food allergies examined.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20110906/african-american-kids-may-have-more-food-allergies +","Genetically verified African ancestry was significantly linked to peanut, but not milk, allergies.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20110906/african-american-kids-may-have-more-food-allergies +","The study found that African-Americans have a threefold higher risk for food allergies than the general population and that African-American male children had the highest food allergy rates in the U.S., with a fourfold higher risk.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20110906/african-american-kids-may-have-more-food-allergies +","Their analysis included genetic assessment of ancestry because, in the U.S. especially, self-identified race may underestimate genetic variability, especially for African-Americans and Hispanics, Kumar says.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20110906/african-american-kids-may-have-more-food-allergies +","Genetic ancestry was determined by measuring accepted genetic variations associated with African, European, and Asian descent.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20110906/african-american-kids-may-have-more-food-allergies +",Self-reported black race was associated with a more than twofold increase in food allergy risk.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20110906/african-american-kids-may-have-more-food-allergies +","Genetic African ancestry was associated with a high risk of peanut allergy, with each 10% increase in African ancestry increasing the risk by 25%.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20110906/african-american-kids-may-have-more-food-allergies +","Andrew H. Liu, MD, who led the NHANES-data study, tells WebMD that the new research adds to the evidence that African-Americans have a higher risk for food allergies.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/allergies/news/20110906/african-american-kids-may-have-more-food-allergies +","We still don't know how much of this risk is attributable to African ancestry and genetic heritage and how much is due to other causes,"" he tells WebMD.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +","New research suggests that African-Americans have a better survival rate than whites after hospitalization for stroke, but the study raises more questions than it answers about the impact of treatment decisions on outcomes and the meaning of stroke mortality statistics, investigators say.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +","In addition to living longer, African-American patients were less likely than whites to receive clot-busting drugs but more likely to receive treatments considered to be end-of-life interventions, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation or kidney dialysis.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +","Stroke Survival Better for African-Americans +African-Americans are more likely to suffer strokes than whites, and studies suggest that they have less access to state-of-the-art stroke treatments.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +","Ours is not the first study to show that after admission to the hospital, survival among black and white stroke patients may differ in ways that are unexpected,” he says.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +","Holloway, Xian, and colleagues examined outcomes over the course of a year among 5,219 African-American and 18,340 white stroke patients treated at 164 hospitals in New York state.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +","Among the major findings: +The death rate during hospitalization for stroke was 5% among African-American patients and 7.4% among whites.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +",The death rate one month after a stroke was 6.1% among African-American patients and 11.4% among whites.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +",The death rate at one year after a stroke was 16.5% among African-American patients and 24.4% among whites.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +","Whites were less likely than blacks to receive life-sustaining interventions like intubation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and tracheostomy.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +",It has been suggested that blacks have a higher incidence than whites of strokes caused by small vessel disease.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +","The newly published study and others suggest that African-Americans are more likely than whites to have these life-sustaining interventions, but it is not clear if patients and family members are fully informed when they decide to have them.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20110131/study-african-americans-live-longer-after-stroke +",Volandes says the fact that more whites than African-Americans in the newly published study received hospice care suggests that whites may have been more aware of different treatment options such as hospice.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20110907/obesity-in-african-american-women-boosts-risk-of-death +","Sept. 7, 2011 -- Overweight and obesity in African-American women increases their risk of death, especially from heart disease, according to a new study.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20110907/obesity-in-african-american-women-boosts-risk-of-death +","""We have now found in African-American women what has been found in other populations -- that the risk of death goes up incrementally with increasing BMI [body mass index] over 25,"" says researcher Julie R. Palmer, ScD, professor of epidemiology at Boston University.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20110907/obesity-in-african-american-women-boosts-risk-of-death +","The new finding refutes previous data that suggests that the risk of weight-related death in African-Americans is increased only at very high BMI levels, such as 35 and up.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20120321/african-american-women-have-specific-hair-issues +","There is some sort of innate fragility,"" McMichael says, referring to the hair of African-American women.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20120321/african-american-women-have-specific-hair-issues +",Hair Loss Is Common in African-American Women,Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20120321/african-american-women-have-specific-hair-issues +","She and her colleagues discovered that when they looked at a national database, the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, to find the top reasons for visits to dermatologists by African-Americans.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20120321/african-american-women-have-specific-hair-issues +","That Affect African-American Women +By looking at where the hair loss occurs, doctors can sometimes decide how it occurs and what kind of hair loss it is.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20120321/african-american-women-have-specific-hair-issues +","African-American Hair Is Unique +Dermatologists have found that the hair shaft of African-American women is structurally different than the hair shaft of women of other races, McMichael says.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20120321/african-american-women-have-specific-hair-issues +","In another study, McMichael surveyed 30 African-American women and 30 white women.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20120321/african-american-women-have-specific-hair-issues +","While 60% of African-American women said their hair was too dry, 67% of Caucasian women said their hair had normal moisture.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20120321/african-american-women-have-specific-hair-issues +","African-American women are more than three times as likely as white women to have hair shaft breakage, she says.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20121028/breast-cancer-african-american-women +","African-American women may be more likely to die of breast cancer than women of other races, especially in the first few years after the diagnosis, according to new research.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20121028/breast-cancer-african-american-women +","As to why, there are no clear answers yet, but the emphasis on vigilant care is clear for African-American women.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20121028/breast-cancer-african-american-women +","""Black women were almost 50% more likely to die compared to white women within the first three years since breast cancer was diagnosed,"" says researcher Erica Warner, ScD, MPH, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20121028/breast-cancer-african-american-women +","That higher risk of death was driven by African-American women who had estrogen receptor-positive tumors, she found.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20121028/breast-cancer-african-american-women +","Asian women, in comparison to whites or African-Americans, had a lower risk of dying from breast cancer, she found.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20000402/african-american-type-2-diabetes +","Middle-aged African Americans are far more likely to develop adult-onset, or type 2, diabetes than middle-aged whites, with women much more likely than men to develop the disease, a study in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association reports.","Elizabeth Tracey , MS" +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20000402/african-american-type-2-diabetes +","""One of the most important findings of our study is that the excess risk of developing diabetes in African American women is almost 50% due to adiposity [excess fat],"" researcher Linda Kao, PhD, tells WebMD.","Elizabeth Tracey , MS" +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20000402/african-american-type-2-diabetes +","The profile of established risk factors for diabetes was clearly worse in African American women than in their white counterparts,"" the researchers write.","Elizabeth Tracey , MS" +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20000402/african-american-type-2-diabetes +","In particular, African American women had fewer years of formal education, were more likely to report a family history of diabetes, had greater measures of adiposity ... and reported less physical activity during leisure time.","Elizabeth Tracey , MS" +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20000402/african-american-type-2-diabetes +","The racial difference in these risk factors, except for the difference in weight, was also seen in African American vs. white men.","Elizabeth Tracey , MS" +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20000402/african-american-type-2-diabetes +","According to the study, the risk of developing diabetes was about 2.4 times greater for African American women and about 1.5 times greater for African American men than for their white counterparts.","Elizabeth Tracey , MS" +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20000402/african-american-type-2-diabetes +","The risk drops by almost half in African American women after the figures are adjusted to account for excess weight, but, Kao says, ""the increased risk among African Americans still persists, indicating that some other factor, perhaps a genetic or environmental factor, or both, remains unidentified."" +Helaine Resnick, PhD, a research fellow in the epidemiology, demography and biometry program at the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health, reviewed the study for WebMD.","Elizabeth Tracey , MS" +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20000402/african-american-type-2-diabetes +","A new study shows that African Americans, especially women, are much more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than their white counterparts.","Elizabeth Tracey , MS" +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20000402/african-american-type-2-diabetes +","Much of the risk for diabetes among the African American population can be modified with lifestyle changes, but a yet-unknown genetic or environmental factor may also contribute.","Elizabeth Tracey , MS" +"https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-apnea/news/20180907/sleep-apnea-often-missed-in-black-americans +","Sleep apnea is common -- but rarely diagnosed -- among black Americans, researchers say.", +"https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-apnea/news/20180907/sleep-apnea-often-missed-in-black-americans +","The new study included 852 black men and women, average age 63, in Jackson, Miss., who were participants in the Jackson Heart Sleep Study.", +"https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-apnea/news/20180907/sleep-apnea-often-missed-in-black-americans +","""Untreated sleep apnea can increase risk for hypertension-related diseases such as stroke, a condition disproportionately common in African-Americans,"" Johnson explained in a hospital news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-apnea/news/20180907/sleep-apnea-often-missed-in-black-americans +","About 80 percent to 90 percent of Americans with sleep apnea are undiagnosed, and black Americans account for a large number of such people, the study authors noted.", +"https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-apnea/news/20180907/sleep-apnea-often-missed-in-black-americans +","He said, ""These findings in the Jackson Heart Study reveal that sleep apnea is underdiagnosed and a potential threat to the health and safety of African-Americans.""", +"https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-apnea/news/20180907/sleep-apnea-often-missed-in-black-americans +","According to Twery, who was not involved with the new report, ""Further studies are needed to develop the tools and systems required to facilitate diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea in African-Americans and other communities.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +",African-Americans are roughly three times as likely as whites to die of illnesses caused by high blood pressure.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +","Their increased risk is so great that what defines good blood pressure control is now lower for African-Americansgood blood pressure control is now lower for African-Americans than for whites, but new research shows that, in this group, water pills remain the drug of choice for the initial treatment of high blood pressure.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +","Using data from a landmark high blood pressure study, researchers showed that the oldest and cheapest blood pressure medications work betterlandmark high blood pressure study, researchers showed that the oldest and cheapest blood pressure medications work better as the initial treatment of high blood pressure, in both African-Americans and other races, than newer, more expensive drugs.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +","Though nearly one in three American adults has high blood pressure,one in three American adults has high blood pressure, the figure is closer to one in two for African-Americans.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +","Because of this, the American Heart Association and other health groups recommend more aggressive blood pressure treatment for African-Americans than for other racial groups.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +",But the goal for African-Americans is now 130/80.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +",Their goal was to look at the risk of heart disease and death from heart disease in African-Americans with high blood pressure taking one of the three commonly prescribed medications.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +","Among the new findings reported by Wright and colleagues in the April 6 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association: +African-Americans who took the diuretic achieved better blood pressure control than those who took the other drugs.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +",Diuretics were better than the two newer drugs for reducing the rates of heart failure in African-Americans.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +","Among non-African-Americans, those who took calcium-channel blockers had the highest risk of heart failure.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +",Neither of the two newer drugs was more effective than the diuretic for preventing heart attacks or death from heart disease in African-Americans and non-African-Americans.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +",The findings showed that ACE inhibitors are less effective than other drugs for lowering blood pressure and preventing poor outcomes in African-Americans.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +","African-Americans who took ACE inhibitors had a 40% greater risk of stroke, a 30% greater risk of heart failure, and a 19% greater risk for cardiovascular events than those who took the diuretic.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +","The overall ALLHAT conclusions that thiazide-type diuretics are indicated as the drug of choice for initial therapy of hypertension apply to both blacks and non-black patient populations,"" the researchers conclude.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050405/water-pill-works-best-for-high-blood-pressure +",They also recommend calcium-channel blockers over ACE inhibitors as the initial treatment for African-Americans who cannot take a diuretic.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/news/20190308/many-black-americans-live-in-trauma-care-deserts +","By Dennis Thompson +HealthDay Reporter +FRIDAY, March 8, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Black neighborhoods in America's three largest cities are much more likely to be located in a ""trauma desert,"" an area without immediate access to a designated trauma center, a new study finds.", +"https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/news/20190308/many-black-americans-live-in-trauma-care-deserts +","Census data for neighborhoods in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles revealed that neighborhoods made up of mostly black residents are more often 5 miles or more away from a trauma center, compared with white or Hispanic neighborhoods, researchers said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/news/20190308/many-black-americans-live-in-trauma-care-deserts +","""We found that black neighborhoods were the only neighborhoods that were consistently in trauma deserts,"" said lead researcher Dr. Elizabeth Tung, an internal medicine and primary care instructor with University of Chicago Medicine.", +"https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/news/20190308/many-black-americans-live-in-trauma-care-deserts +","They found large proportions of majority-black neighborhoods in Chicago (35 percent) and New York City (21 percent), but not in Los Angeles (3 percent).", +"https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/news/20190308/many-black-americans-live-in-trauma-care-deserts +",The findings showed that black-majority neighborhoods were eight times more likely to be located in a trauma care desert in Chicago and five times more likely in Los Angeles., +"https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/news/20190308/many-black-americans-live-in-trauma-care-deserts +","On the other hand, activists in New York City rallied around Harlem Hospital and headed off its closure twice, which could explain why the Big Apple's black communities are not as likely to be in a trauma care desert, Tung said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20171023/heart-disease-stroke-cutting-black-lives-short +","Black Americans have a shorter life expectancy than whites, and higher rates of heart disease and stroke may be a major reason why, a new American Heart Association statement suggests.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20171023/heart-disease-stroke-cutting-black-lives-short +","In recent years, life expectancy for blacks was over three years less than for whites -- 75.5 years vs. almost 79 years, according to the statement, which was based on a review of more than 300 studies.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20171023/heart-disease-stroke-cutting-black-lives-short +","Black people have a higher rate of heart attacks, sudden cardiac arrest, heart failure and strokes.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20171023/heart-disease-stroke-cutting-black-lives-short +","Between 1999 and 2010, heart disease and stroke contributed to more than 2 million years of life lost among black people, the researchers said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20171023/heart-disease-stroke-cutting-black-lives-short +","Heart disease and stroke risk factors such as high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes also start at an earlier age among black people than white people, the review found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20171023/heart-disease-stroke-cutting-black-lives-short +","For example, 14 percent of black children have high blood pressure, compared to 8 percent of white children.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20171023/heart-disease-stroke-cutting-black-lives-short +","Twenty percent of black children aged 2 to 19 are obese, compared to 15 percent of white children.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20171023/heart-disease-stroke-cutting-black-lives-short +","Among adults, 58 percent of black women and 38 percent of black men are obese, compared to 33 percent of white women and 34 percent of white men, the review found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20171023/heart-disease-stroke-cutting-black-lives-short +","Poverty is a major factor in the higher rates of heart disease and stroke among black people, but even middle- and upper-class black people are at higher risk than middle- and upper-class white people, the release said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20171023/heart-disease-stroke-cutting-black-lives-short +","Although most people experience stress from jobs and major life events, African-Americans are more likely to have persistent economic stress and to face concerns about maintaining their health, including preventing weight gain and managing chronic conditions such as high blood pressure or diabetes,"" Carnethon said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20031007/minority-kids-studies +","Researchers found that African-American children are currently overrepresented in medical research, but white and Hispanic children are underrepresented.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20031007/minority-kids-studies +","The study, published in the October issue of Pediatrics, suggests that ""black children do have fair access to the potential benefits of clinical trials"" despite having less access to quality health care in general.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20031007/minority-kids-studies +","Researchers say they were surprised to find that black children were, in fact, overrepresented in clinical research.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20031007/minority-kids-studies +","African-Americans make up 15% of the U.S. population, but 26% of children involved in medical research were African American, and 32% of those enrolled in clinical trials.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20031007/minority-kids-studies +","In addition, the study found that black and Hispanic children were overrepresented in sensitive and potentially stigmatizing research areas, such as child abuse, high-risk behaviors, and HIV.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20031007/minority-kids-studies +","For example, 30% of the children in studies in these areas were black despite this population only making up 15% of the U.S. population.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20031007/minority-kids-studies +","Clearly, black and Hispanic children should be overrepresented in AIDS research as they account for 82% of all reported pediatric AIDS cases.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20180925/breast-cancer-treatment-adherence-varies-by-race +","(HealthDay News) -- Black women are more likely than white women to skip important hormonal breast cancer treatments, new research indicates.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20180925/breast-cancer-treatment-adherence-varies-by-race +","""This study provides evidence in a large, racially diverse cohort study that black women with hormone receptor-positive breast cancer experience unique barriers to endocrine therapy adherence,"" said study author Stephanie Wheeler, of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20180925/breast-cancer-treatment-adherence-varies-by-race +","In the United States, even though black women are less likely to develop breast cancer than white women, they are 40 percent more likely to die from it, the researchers noted.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20180925/breast-cancer-treatment-adherence-varies-by-race +",Almost half were black., +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20180925/breast-cancer-treatment-adherence-varies-by-race +","Overall, 24 percent of the black women reported not taking their endocrine therapy drugs as often as they should.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20180925/breast-cancer-treatment-adherence-varies-by-race +","Also, 14 percent of black women reported not taking their pills every day, compared to 5 percent of whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20180925/breast-cancer-treatment-adherence-varies-by-race +","More than one-quarter of black women said they found it difficult to stick to their treatment plan, compared to 14 percent of white women.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20180925/breast-cancer-treatment-adherence-varies-by-race +",More blacks than whites said they forgot to take their pills while traveling., +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20180925/breast-cancer-treatment-adherence-varies-by-race +",More black women also said they cut back on their pills to reduce costs or forgot to take their medication., +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20180925/breast-cancer-treatment-adherence-varies-by-race +","In addition, side effects led one-quarter of black women, but just 16 percent of white women, to skip doses, the study found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20181219/why-are-blacks-more-prone-to-sudden-cardiac-death +",A sizable study still can't explain why black Americans are much more likely than whites to suffer sudden cardiac death., +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20181219/why-are-blacks-more-prone-to-sudden-cardiac-death +","At the end of the day, we just don't have a full understanding of why patients who are black are more likely to succumb to [sudden cardiac death] -- a clear problem and knowledge gap on many levels,"" said study lead author Dr. Rajat Deo.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20181219/why-are-blacks-more-prone-to-sudden-cardiac-death +","The researchers examined data on more than 9,400 blacks and more than 13,000 whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20181219/why-are-blacks-more-prone-to-sudden-cardiac-death +","During an average follow-up of six years, there were nearly twice as many sudden cardiac deaths among the black adults.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20181219/why-are-blacks-more-prone-to-sudden-cardiac-death +","""While greater public health efforts to identify and decrease health risks in black populations will be a critical step in reducing their higher risk of [sudden cardiac death], our data suggest that it may not eliminate racial disparities entirely,"" Deo said in a university news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20181219/why-are-blacks-more-prone-to-sudden-cardiac-death +",They said blacks still had a significantly higher risk for sudden cardiac death., +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20181219/why-are-blacks-more-prone-to-sudden-cardiac-death +","""For many in the black community, their first clinical presentation of any cardiovascular issue is a sudden cardiac death event,"" Deo said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20031002/breast-cancer-death-decline +","A new report from the American Cancer Society shows that despite widespread progress in early detection and treatment of breast cancer, African American women are still more likely to die of breast cancer than white women.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20031002/breast-cancer-death-decline +","But the bad news is that although African American women and white women had similar numbers of deaths due to breast cancer in the 1980s, breast cancer death rates among African American women are now 30% higher than those among white women.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180504/racial-divide-narrows-in-opioid-prescribing-in-us +","By Robert Preidt +HealthDay Reporter +FRIDAY, May 4, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Black Americans are no longer less likely than whites to be prescribed opioid painkillers -- but that means their risk of addiction to the narcotics has increased, researchers say.", +"https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180504/racial-divide-narrows-in-opioid-prescribing-in-us +","In 2015, the rates of opioid prescriptions were 23 percent for both blacks and whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180504/racial-divide-narrows-in-opioid-prescribing-in-us +","This suggests that doctors no longer discriminate against blacks when prescribing narcotics for pain relief, the researchers said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180504/racial-divide-narrows-in-opioid-prescribing-in-us +",But they added that blacks now face an increased risk of addiction through exposure to the prescription drugs., +"https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180504/racial-divide-narrows-in-opioid-prescribing-in-us +","It's long been believed that the U.S. opioid addiction epidemic affects more whites than blacks or Latinos, according to the study authors.", +"https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180504/racial-divide-narrows-in-opioid-prescribing-in-us +","Why more blacks are using prescription opioids wasn't addressed in the study, but the change could reflect gains in public insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the researchers suggested.", +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20140926/breast-feeding-may-cut-risk-for-aggressive-breast-cancer-in-black-women +","By Robert Preidt +HealthDay Reporter +FRIDAY, Sept. 26, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Black mothers who don't breast-feed may be at higher risk for an aggressive type of breast cancer, a new study suggests.", +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20140926/breast-feeding-may-cut-risk-for-aggressive-breast-cancer-in-black-women +","Researchers analyzed data from nearly 3,700 black breast cancer patients.", +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20140926/breast-feeding-may-cut-risk-for-aggressive-breast-cancer-in-black-women +",About one-third of them had estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer -- a tumor subtype that is more common in black women and carries a higher risk of death., +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20140926/breast-feeding-may-cut-risk-for-aggressive-breast-cancer-in-black-women +","""Breast cancer mortality is disproportionately high in African American women of all ages, in part due to the higher incidence of estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer, with fewer targets for treatment,"" Palmer noted in a journal news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20140926/breast-feeding-may-cut-risk-for-aggressive-breast-cancer-in-black-women +","However, besides its well-known benefits for baby, breast-feeding may be a ""factor that could prevent some cases of this breast cancer subtype and reduce the number of African American women dying from this disease,"" she added.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20180221/blacks-may-face-higher-stroke-risk-from-afib +",New research finds that the risk of stroke is much higher in black Americans with afib than in whites with the condition., +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20180221/blacks-may-face-higher-stroke-risk-from-afib +","While blacks have a lower risk of developing the heart rhythm disorder compared to whites, the authors of the new study said there's been little research into how race affects stroke risk tied to afib.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20180221/blacks-may-face-higher-stroke-risk-from-afib +","That's because clinical trials looking at heart medications ""have enrolled very few African-American participants, which left us with little data about risks for this patient population,"" said study senior author Dr. Rajat Deo.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20180221/blacks-may-face-higher-stroke-risk-from-afib +","However, compared to whites with afib, blacks with the condition had a higher risk of stroke -- both before and after their afib diagnosis, Deo's team said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20180221/blacks-may-face-higher-stroke-risk-from-afib +","The study ""highlights a need for greater screening in this higher risk population"" of black Americans and is ""a call for more research to better understand what can be done to lower their risk of stroke,"" said Dr. Yasir El-Sherif.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20180221/blacks-may-face-higher-stroke-risk-from-afib +","The new study ""demonstrated that patients at risk suffered strokes even before the diagnosis of atrial fibrillation,"" Epstein noted, and ""this was particularly true for African-Americans."" +The bottom line, he said, is that ""we should be more aggressively screening for atrial fibrillation in at-risk patients, and ensuring the appropriate use of blood thinners.", +"https://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/20141021/black-women-fare-worse-with-fertility-treatments-study-says +","By Maureen Salamon +HealthDay Reporter +TUESDAY, Oct. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Black women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) are only about half as likely as white women to become pregnant using the popular assisted reproduction technique, new research indicates, and the racial disparity persists even when donor eggs are used.", +"https://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/20141021/black-women-fare-worse-with-fertility-treatments-study-says +","In the study, about 31 percent of white patients became pregnant after IVF, compared to about 17 percent of black patients.", +"https://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/20141021/black-women-fare-worse-with-fertility-treatments-study-says +","Analyzing more than 4,000 IVF cycles over two years to tease out the impact of race, scientists from University of Chicago also found that miscarriage after IVF -- where eggs and sperm are joined in a lab and implanted in the woman's uterus -- occurred twice as often among blacks than whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/20141021/black-women-fare-worse-with-fertility-treatments-study-says +","In another study being presented at the ASRM meeting, researchers from Columbia University Medical Center in New York found that racial differences for IVF success persisted between white and black women even when donor eggs were used.", +"https://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/20141021/black-women-fare-worse-with-fertility-treatments-study-says +","Because black women have higher incidences of such conditions, the scientists compared black and white egg donor recipients who had similar uterine histories.", +"https://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/20141021/black-women-fare-worse-with-fertility-treatments-study-says +","Despite that, black women still experienced significantly lower embryo implantation rates than whites -- 30.4 percent compared to 36.3 percent, Grossman said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/20141021/black-women-fare-worse-with-fertility-treatments-study-says +","I'm not actually surprised, because the [medical] literature before this almost uniformly has shown a lower success rate in African-American women compared to Caucasians,"" said Illions, also an associate professor of clinical obstetrics, gynecology and women's health at Montefiore Institute for Reproductive Medicine.", +"https://www.webmd.com/infertility-and-reproduction/news/20141021/black-women-fare-worse-with-fertility-treatments-study-says +","In most of the studies also, the BMIs of African-American women have been dramatically higher,"" he added.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20161003/breast-cancer-deaths-black-women +","Oct. 3, 2016 -- Researchers have known for years that African-American women die of breast cancer at higher rates than white women.",Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20161003/breast-cancer-deaths-black-women +","The study, which looked at breast cancer deaths between 2010 and 2014 in the 43 most populous U.S. cities, found that African-American women are 43% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women.",Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20161003/breast-cancer-deaths-black-women +","This disparity results in 3,854 excess deaths of black women every year.",Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20161003/breast-cancer-deaths-black-women +","In 42 of the 43 cities examined in the study, African-American women die from breast cancer at higher rates than white women.",Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20161003/breast-cancer-deaths-black-women +","The difference in death rates is “startlingly high” in Atlanta, where African-American women are dying of breast cancer at a rate more than double that of white women, according to the Avon Foundation, which funded the study.",Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20161003/breast-cancer-deaths-black-women +","Next Steps +Researchers didn’t analyze reasons for the disparities between black and white death rates in this study but have started another to address that question.",Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20161003/breast-cancer-deaths-black-women +","Black women were not getting the same access to resources, so their rates stayed the same or got worse,” she says.",Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20161003/breast-cancer-deaths-black-women +","Sheryl Gabram-Mendola MD, director of the Avon Foundation Comprehensive Breast Center at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, sees firsthand the barriers many African-American women face getting tested.",Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20161003/breast-cancer-deaths-black-women +","Breast cancer can show up earlier in African-Americans, especially a particularly aggressive type known as triple-negative breast cancer.",Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20050615/smoking-tied-to-most-black-male-cancer-deaths +","Smoking may cause most premature cancer deaths in U.S. black men, says a new study.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20050615/smoking-tied-to-most-black-male-cancer-deaths +",The study estimates that smoking may have been involved in 63% of black men's cancer deaths in 2001.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20050615/smoking-tied-to-most-black-male-cancer-deaths +","Blacks' cancer death rates have been dropping but remain higher than for other ethnic groups, says the ACS.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20050615/smoking-tied-to-most-black-male-cancer-deaths +","The cancer death rate for black men is 40% higher than for white men, says the ACS, which does not lay the blame on any one cause.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20050615/smoking-tied-to-most-black-male-cancer-deaths +","This study clarifies that the best explanation for most premature cancer deaths for African-American males is tobacco smoke exposure, whether from secondhand or active smoking.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20050615/smoking-tied-to-most-black-male-cancer-deaths +","Still, the lowest rate -- seen in the Northeast -- showed that more than four out of 10 cancer deaths in black men could have been related to smoking.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20050615/smoking-tied-to-most-black-male-cancer-deaths +","Here are the study's regional estimates for black men's 2001 cancer deaths: +CONTINUE READING BELOW +U.S.: 63% +Northeast: 43% +Midwest: 63% +South: 67% +West: 60% +The South ""by far"" had the steepest smoking-cancer death figures from 1969-2001, says the study.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20050615/smoking-tied-to-most-black-male-cancer-deaths +","The findings only cover black men and should not be applied to black women or people in other ethnic groups, says the report.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20050615/smoking-tied-to-most-black-male-cancer-deaths +","Previously, Leistikow reported that smoking might have caused 38% to 72% of black men's cancer deaths in 2000.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +","With black men at higher risk of developing -- and dying from -- prostate cancer, some researchers believe these men merit their own race-based screening guidelines.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +","It's known that incidence of prostate cancer is 60 percent higher among black men in the United States than among white men, said Ruth Etzioni, senior author of a new study.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +",The new study finds that prostate cancers in black men also tend to progress faster than in whites., +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +","Because of this, Etzioni and her colleagues believe black men should start discussing prostate cancer screening with their doctor in their 40s, rather than waiting until their 50s, which is what most guidelines recommend.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +","""Screening recommendations for the general population are likely not optimal for black men,"" she said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +",Black men may need to consider beginning screening earlier and possibly screening more frequently., +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +","There is a need for clinical guidelines around prostate cancer screening that are specific to black men,"" Etzioni said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +",And he has reservations about the need for guidelines geared specifically to black men., +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +","I am willing to accept that men whose majority geographic heritage is from sub-Saharan Africa have a higher rate of prostate cancer, but that's separate from black men,"" Brawley said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +","There are a substantial number of black men in the United States, ""or men who we call black, who have white relatives,"" he said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +","However, Brawley does think men with a sub-Saharan African heritage should start the discussion about screening earlier than other men.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +","I'm a black guy who understands what's known and not known about prostate cancer screening, and I decided not to get screened.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +",The investigators estimated that 30 percent to 43 percent of black men develop preclinical prostate cancer (cancer without symptoms) by age 85., +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +","Also, without screening, black men with preclinical prostate cancer have a similar risk of diagnosis as other men, the findings showed.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20170424/should-prostate-cancer-screening-start-earlier-for-black-men +","That suggests the disease progresses faster in blacks, Etzioni's team concluded.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","Black Americans are living longer, but they still aren't living as long as whites are, federal health officials reported Tuesday.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","While the overall death rate among black people dropped 25 percent between 1999 and 2015, the average life expectancy among black Americans still lags behind whites by almost four years, a study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","We are seeing declines in three leading causes of death among blacks -- heart disease, cancer and HIV,"" Leandris Liburd, associate director of CDC's Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, said during a midday news conference.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","ADVERTISEMENT +And the gap in early death rates between blacks and whites is closing, Liburd added.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","The closing of the gap is due to improved health of the black population overall, she said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","However, we need to continue raising awareness among blacks from an early age to encourage healthy behaviors that will have lifelong impact,"" Liburd said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","Disparities in early death rates between blacks and whites are also shrinking in part because those rates are dropping faster for black Americans than for whites, the researchers found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","Moreover, the gaps in death rates from heart disease and for all causes among blacks and whites aged", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","Death rates for certain diseases are declining faster among blacks than whites, leading to smaller disparities, he explained.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","""Deaths from heart disease in blacks 65 and older have declined by 43 percent, and deaths in whites 65 and older have declined by 38 percent.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","For cancer, deaths decreased in blacks by nearly 29 percent and by 20 percent in whites,"" Cunningham added.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","Despite the progress, younger blacks are more likely to live with or die from medical conditions that usually strike older whites, such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","Among young black Americans, risk factors for some diseases -- such as high blood pressure -- may not be noticed or treated, the researchers noted.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +",And murder rates among black Americans have not changed during the 17 years covered by the study., +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","""Homicide is the seventh highest cause of death among blacks and has not decreased to any major extent during these 17 years in any age group other than in blacks 65 and older,"" Cunningham said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","In blacks 18 to 34 years old, it remains the number one cause of death.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","In blacks 35 to 49 years old, it is the number three cause of death, after heart disease and cancer,"" Cunningham explained.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","On the plus side, deaths from HIV among blacks aged 18 to 49 dropped 80 percent between 1999 and 2015.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","Yet a large disparity still exists between blacks and whites -- black Americans are seven to nine times more likely to die from HIV than white Americans, the findings showed.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","These gaps between blacks and whites are rooted in poverty and other social conditions that continue to plague the black community, the researchers said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","Black Americans of all ages had lower levels of education and home ownership, and nearly twice the rate of poverty and unemployment as whites, according to the report.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","Black Americans are also more likely to be obese and sedentary, factors that can negatively affect health, the investigators said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","He said, ""Social justice is among the more important determinants of health outcomes, and disparities are very revealing about social justice and equity in public health."" +Disparities are particularly glaring in the United States, so a decline in the survival gap between whites and blacks is positive and suggests that progress is being made, he added.", +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20170502/life-expectancy-goes-up-for-black-americans +","Second, the gap may be narrowing now, not just because black Americans are living longer, but because life expectancy has declined recently for white Americans, at least in part due to the nation's opioid and mental health crises, he pointed out.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20160622/irregular-heartbeat-more-deadly-in-blacks-study +","By Robert Preidt +HealthDay Reporter +WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Black Americans with a common heart rhythm disorder are at higher risk than whites for serious heart complications and death, a new study finds.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20160622/irregular-heartbeat-more-deadly-in-blacks-study +","The new findings may ""put the focus on improving prevention efforts for adverse outcomes in blacks with atrial fibrillation,"" said study lead author and cardiologist Dr. Jared Magnani.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20160622/irregular-heartbeat-more-deadly-in-blacks-study +","The study included more than 15,000 blacks and whites, average age 54, who were followed for an average of 21 years.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20160622/irregular-heartbeat-more-deadly-in-blacks-study +","Blacks with atrial fibrillation had up to two times greater risk of stroke, heart disease, heart failure and death from all causes than whites with the same heart rhythm disorder.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20160622/irregular-heartbeat-more-deadly-in-blacks-study +","""We knew blacks were likely to have an increased risk of stroke, but the findings for heart failure, [heart disease] and mortality are novel and important,"" Magnani said in a university news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20160622/irregular-heartbeat-more-deadly-in-blacks-study +",It's going to be important to dissect the mechanisms behind why blacks with atrial fibrillation are highly more likely to have adverse outcomes than whites., +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20160622/irregular-heartbeat-more-deadly-in-blacks-study +","They noted that it's only the latest to show ""cardiovascular disorders with either an increase in incidence or worse outcome in black individuals compared with white individuals.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/news/20160622/irregular-heartbeat-more-deadly-in-blacks-study +",What is known is that there are a number of socioeconomic factors found more commonly among black individuals that strongly correlate with worse cardiovascular outcomes., +"https://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/news/20100309/cdc-genital-herpes-rates-still-high +","March 9, 2010 -- One in six Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 have genital herpes and close to one in two black women are infected, new figures from the CDC reveal.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/news/20100309/cdc-genital-herpes-rates-still-high +","According to the latest findings: +Women and African-Americans were the most likely to be infected.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/news/20100309/cdc-genital-herpes-rates-still-high +","HSV-2 prevalence was nearly twice as high among women (21%) as men (11%), and more than three times higher among African-Americans (39%) than whites (12%).",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/news/20100309/cdc-genital-herpes-rates-still-high +",The infection rate among African-American women was 48%,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/news/20100309/cdc-genital-herpes-rates-still-high +","And since the background rate of infection is so high in the black community, African-American women are especially at risk, Douglas said.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/news/20100309/cdc-genital-herpes-rates-still-high +","""It is quite clear that this increased rate of infection in African-American women is not due to increased risk behavior,"" he said.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +","March 18, 2009 -- One in 100 African-Americans will suffer heart failure in the prime of his or her life, a startling new study shows.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +","""Blacks in their 30s and 40s develop heart failure at rates seen in whites in their 50s and 60s,"" study leader Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, of the University of California, San Francisco, tells WebMD.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +","Bibbins-Domingo and colleagues followed 5,115 young people -- about half of them African-American, about half of them female -- who underwent regular medical exams over the first 20 years of the ongoing study.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +",All but one of them were African-American.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +","It has been known for some time that blacks have more heart failure and may be slightly younger when they develop heart failure, but ours is the first study to document how high these rates are at younger ages,"" Bibbins-Domingo says.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +","Interestingly, in terms of heart disease risk, whites and African-Americans looked pretty much the same at the start of the study.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +",So why were only blacks developing heart failure in our study?,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +",One possibility is blacks have higher rates of increases in blood pressure and BMI in their 20s.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +","Although at the beginning they were similar to whites, over time the two groups began to look different, with more hypertension and obesity among blacks,"" Bibbins-Domingo says.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +",Three-fourths of the African-American study participants who suffered heart failure had uncontrolled high blood pressure by age 40.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +","In an editorial accompanying the Bibbins-Domingo report, Peterson notes that African-American patients are less likely than whites to be screened for, get treatment for, or reach treatment goals for high blood pressure, high cholesterol/blood fats, and obesity.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +","""We have come to accept that there are care differences between African-American and white populations, but does it really matter?",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +","There would be 7,670 fewer heart disease and stroke deaths each year if African-Americans' blood pressure was controlled as well as that of white Americans, according to a recent study by University of Rochester researcher Kevin Fiscella, MD, MPH.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20090318/blacks-have-high-heart-failure-risk +","""Huge numbers of African-Americans who develop heart failure are untreated, and even among those who are treated, blood pressure is not controlled,"" Fiscella tells WebMD.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20180511/products-for-black-women-may-disrupt-hormones +","By Robert Preidt +HealthDay Reporter +FRIDAY, May 11, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Many black women use a plethora of hair care products that contain chemicals that can interfere with their hormones, researchers warn.", +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20180511/products-for-black-women-may-disrupt-hormones +",They noted these chemicals could be a reason why black women have higher rates of certain hormone-related health conditions than other women in the United States., +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20180511/products-for-black-women-may-disrupt-hormones +","For example, black women begin puberty at younger ages, and they have higher rates of hormone-linked problems such as preterm birth, uterine fibroids and infertility than other groups of women.", +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20180511/products-for-black-women-may-disrupt-hormones +","""This study is a first step toward uncovering what harmful substances are in products frequently used by black women, so we can better understand what's driving some of the health issues they're facing,"" she added in an institute news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20180511/products-for-black-women-may-disrupt-hormones +","Helm and her colleagues analyzed 18 different hair products used by black women, including hot oil treatments, anti-frizz hair polishes, leave-in conditioners, root stimulators, hair lotions and hair relaxers.", +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20180511/products-for-black-women-may-disrupt-hormones +","While the chemicals detected by the researchers aren't unique to hair products used by black women, the levels in these products were generally higher than in other hair products, the researchers said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20180511/products-for-black-women-may-disrupt-hormones +","""Black women are overexposed and under-protected from toxic chemicals,"" said Janette Robinson Flint, executive director of the nonprofit group Black Women for Wellness.", +"https://www.webmd.com/beauty/news/20180511/products-for-black-women-may-disrupt-hormones +","""This study is evidence that hair products are an important source of toxic chemicals, and that we need to remove these risks to protect black women's lives and prevent harm,"" Robinson Flint said in the release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20071002/icd-gap-for-women-and-african-americans +","Oct. 2, 2007 -- Women are two to three times less likely -- and African-Americans are 25% less likely -- than white men to get defibrillator implants when they need them.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20071002/icd-gap-for-women-and-african-americans +","Between them, the studies show that three groups -- black women, all women, and black men -- get fewer ICDs.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20071002/icd-gap-for-women-and-african-americans +","But some patients were even less likely to get an ICD than others: +Black women were 44% less likely to get an ICD than were white men.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20071002/icd-gap-for-women-and-african-americans +",Black men were 27% less likely to get an ICD than were white men.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20101004/low-vitamin-d-linked-breast-cancer +","African-American woman have higher rates of vitamin D deficiency associated with aggressive breast cancer than white women, a new study finds.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20101004/low-vitamin-d-linked-breast-cancer +","Researchers at the University of South Carolina studied 107 women who had been diagnosed with breast cancer in the past five years, including 60 African-Americans.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20101004/low-vitamin-d-linked-breast-cancer +","Sixty percent of African-American women studied had low vitamin D levels, compared to 15% of white women.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20101004/low-vitamin-d-linked-breast-cancer +","The mean serum concentration of vitamin D was 29.8 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL) in white women and 19.3 ng/ml in African-American women, researchers say in a news release.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20080923/racial-disparities-with-colon-cancer +","When compared with whites, African-Americans get colon cancer more often and die from it more often, according to research.",Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20080923/racial-disparities-with-colon-cancer +","The researchers write that since 1985, colon cancer rates have dipped 20% to 25% for whites, while rates have gone up for African-American men and stayed the same for African-American women.",Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20080923/racial-disparities-with-colon-cancer +",They add some startling figures: that African-Americans are 38% to 43% more likely to die from colon cancer than are whites.,Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20080923/racial-disparities-with-colon-cancer +","For this study, researchers looked at where polyps (larger than 9 millimeters) were located in African-Americans and whites who were screened but had no symptoms.",Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20080923/racial-disparities-with-colon-cancer +","Information came from colonoscopy screenings of 5,464 African-Americans and 80,061 whites from 67 screening centers around the United States.",Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20080923/racial-disparities-with-colon-cancer +","The authors write that ""asymptomatic black men and women undergoing colonoscopy screening are more likely to have one or more polyps sized more than 9 mm compared with white individuals.",Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20080923/racial-disparities-with-colon-cancer +",These findings emphasize the importance of encouraging all black men and women to be screened.,Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20080923/racial-disparities-with-colon-cancer +","The findings: +Nearly 8% of African-American patients had one or more polyps larger than 9 mm.",Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20080923/racial-disparities-with-colon-cancer +",African-American women had a 62% greater risk of having such a polyp in the colon when compared with white women.,Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20080923/racial-disparities-with-colon-cancer +",African-American men had a 16% greater chance of having large polyps when compared with white men.,Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20080923/racial-disparities-with-colon-cancer +",The researchers also found that there was a significant increase in prevalence of large polyps found in the proximal colon (beginning part of the colon) for African-American patients over 60 years old compared with white patients over 60.,Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20110816/breastfeeding-may-cut-risk-of-some-breast-cancers +","African-American women may reduce their risk of getting an aggressive breast cancer known as ER-negative by breastfeeding, new research suggests.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20110816/breastfeeding-may-cut-risk-of-some-breast-cancers +","Julie R. Palmer, ScD, of Boston University, found that having multiple children raised the risk of ER-negative breast cancer in African-American women, but that breastfeeding reduced it.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20110816/breastfeeding-may-cut-risk-of-some-breast-cancers +",They evaluated women who participated in the Black Women's Health Study.,Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20110816/breastfeeding-may-cut-risk-of-some-breast-cancers +","In this ongoing study, 59,000 African-American women were followed from 1995 until 2009.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20110816/breastfeeding-may-cut-risk-of-some-breast-cancers +",African-American Moms,Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20110816/breastfeeding-may-cut-risk-of-some-breast-cancers +","African-Americans are much less likely to initiate breastfeeding,"" she says, compared to other ethnic groups.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20060815/blacks-talk-doctors-less +","Blacks raise fewer concerns and questions when meeting with their doctors and get shorter explanations when they do, according to a new study.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20060815/blacks-talk-doctors-less +","But black patients were less likely than whites to ask questions, raise concerns, or bring a family member or friend to their appointment, which reduced the overall amount of information they received.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20060815/blacks-talk-doctors-less +",The results showed that black patients and their companions received significantly less information from doctors -- an average of about 49 statements compared with 87 given to white patients.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20060815/blacks-talk-doctors-less +","Our findings raise concern for a pattern of communication that may perpetuate patient passivity and limited information exchange where black patients, when compared to white patients, do less to prompt the doctor for information and the doctor, in turn, provides less information to black patients,"" writes researcher Howard S. Gordon, MD, of Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Chicago, and colleagues.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150428/switch-from-us-to-african-diet-may-lower-colon-cancer-risk-in-blacks +","By Mary Elizabeth Dallas +HealthDay Reporter +TUESDAY, April 28, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- When a group of black Americans switched their diet from a typical American one to that of South Africans, certain risk factors for colon cancer began to fade away, a small study found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150428/switch-from-us-to-african-diet-may-lower-colon-cancer-risk-in-blacks +","Conversely, switching from the high-protein, low-fiber Western diet to a traditional African high-fiber, low-fat diet reduced certain risk factors for of colon cancer in the gut.", +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150428/switch-from-us-to-african-diet-may-lower-colon-cancer-risk-in-blacks +",The new study involved a group of 20 black American volunteers and 20 more participants from rural South Africa., +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150428/switch-from-us-to-african-diet-may-lower-colon-cancer-risk-in-blacks +","After two weeks of eating the African diet, the American volunteers showed dramatic reductions in colon inflammation, the researchers said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150428/switch-from-us-to-african-diet-may-lower-colon-cancer-risk-in-blacks +","On the other hand, colon cancer risk factors rose significantly among the Africans who made the switch to a high-fat, high-protein, low-fiber American-style diet, the team said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150428/switch-from-us-to-african-diet-may-lower-colon-cancer-risk-in-blacks +","""We can't definitively tell from these measurements that the change in their diet would have led to more cancer in the African group or less in the American group, but there is good evidence from other studies that the changes we observed are signs of cancer risk,"" study co-author Jeremy Nicholson of Imperial College London said in the news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +","By Alan Mozes +HealthDay Reporter +THURSDAY, April 16, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Blacks have a higher risk of developing prostate cancer than whites, and for obese black men, their risk can quadruple as their weight goes up, a new study indicates.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +","The findings from this large study should lead to a redoubling of efforts to encourage obesity prevention among black men, said study lead author Wendy Barrington, an assistant professor in the school of nursing at the University of Washington.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +","The main 'take-home' point for practicing physicians is to recognize that obesity has a different relationship to prostate cancer risk in African-American [men] compared to non-Hispanic white men,"" said Barrington.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +",But it could also be that there's actually a biological difference between African-American and non-Hispanic white men . . ., +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +","For reasons that remain unclear, it has long been known that at any age, blacks face a greater overall risk for the disease than other men.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +",The study team noted that blacks also face the highest risk for aggressive prostate cancer and death., +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +","The trial included nearly 3,400 black men and almost 22,700 white men, all cancer-free and age 55 and up at the start.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +","Over a follow-up of roughly 5.5 years, the study found a 58 percent increased risk for prostate cancer among blacks compared with whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +","In terms of weight, researchers found obesity raised risk in blacks as weight increased.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +","For black men with a BMI of 25 or less, their risk for any prostate cancer was up 28 percent, while that risk jumped to 103 percent for blacks with a BMI of 35 or more.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +",Obesity among black men was also linked to greater risk of both aggressive and non-aggressive prostate cancer risk., +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +","Compared with healthy-weight black men, severely obese blacks more faced a 122 percent increased risk for low-grade (slow-moving) prostate cancer.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20150416/obesity-linked-to-greater-risk-of-prostate-cancer-in-blacks-study-says +","However, given the ongoing debate about the value of routine prostate cancer screening, ""this study identifies obese men, especially those of African ancestry, as a high-risk population who may particularly benefit from screening,"" Kutikov said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20141031/study-confirms-obesity-breast-cancer-link-for-blacks-hispanics +","By Robert Preidt +HealthDay Reporter +FRIDAY, Oct. 31, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity increases the risk of certain types of breast cancer in postmenopausal black and Hispanic women, two new U.S. studies show.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20141031/study-confirms-obesity-breast-cancer-link-for-blacks-hispanics +","The other study included more than 15,000 black women and found that being overweight or obese increased postmenopausal women's risk of ER-positive breast cancer by 31 percent.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20141031/study-confirms-obesity-breast-cancer-link-for-blacks-hispanics +",It also found that the risk was nearly double among black women who were lean as young adults and gained weight in adulthood., +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20141031/study-confirms-obesity-breast-cancer-link-for-blacks-hispanics +",The distribution of these subtypes and risk factors are different for African Americans and Hispanics compared to white women., +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20141031/study-confirms-obesity-breast-cancer-link-for-blacks-hispanics +","We need to know more about what African American women can do to prevent and survive breast cancers of all types, which are often aggressive and deadly.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20141031/study-confirms-obesity-breast-cancer-link-for-blacks-hispanics +",More than one in two black women and nearly one in two Hispanic women in the United States are obese., +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20140908/watchful-waiting-may-not-be-best-for-black-men-with-prostate-cancer +","By Robert Preidt +HealthDay Reporter +MONDAY, Sept. 8, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Monitoring early stage prostate cancer instead of treating it may not be appropriate for all patients, especially black men, a new study indicates.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20140908/watchful-waiting-may-not-be-best-for-black-men-with-prostate-cancer +","But this new study suggests that watchful waiting may not be suitable for all men with early stage prostate cancer, especially black patients.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20140908/watchful-waiting-may-not-be-best-for-black-men-with-prostate-cancer +","""We know that African-American men have more aggressive prostate cancer than Caucasian men,"" Dr. Kosj Yamoah, chief resident in the department of radiation oncology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, said in a university news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20140908/watchful-waiting-may-not-be-best-for-black-men-with-prostate-cancer +","Our study shows that African-American men who are diagnosed with a low-grade cancer at first -- the cancers that are sometimes watched rather than treated -- are more likely to develop aggressive disease sooner than Caucasian men,"" he said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20140908/watchful-waiting-may-not-be-best-for-black-men-with-prostate-cancer +","Among these patients, blacks were more likely to have cancer progression and worse outcomes than whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20140908/watchful-waiting-may-not-be-best-for-black-men-with-prostate-cancer +","Seven years after surgery, rates of disease control were 90 percent among whites and 79 percent among blacks, the study found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20140908/watchful-waiting-may-not-be-best-for-black-men-with-prostate-cancer +",The researchers are still searching for molecular clues that would help identify black prostate cancer patients who have the highest risk of disease progression and those most likely to benefit from watchful waiting., +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20180607/why-women-are-getting-misdiagnosed +","While Serena Williams was able to push back against a dismissive medical system and get treated for her life-threatening blood clots, black women overall are three to four times more likely than white women to die of pregnancy-related complications.",Gina Shaw +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20180607/why-women-are-getting-misdiagnosed +","In New York City, a 2016 analysis found that college-educated black women were more likely to have severe complications of pregnancy or childbirth than white women who never graduated from high school.",Gina Shaw +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20180607/why-women-are-getting-misdiagnosed +","Why would that be?” asks Nancy C. Lee, MD, a member of the board of directors of the National Black Women’s Health Imperative.",Gina Shaw +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20180607/why-women-are-getting-misdiagnosed +","Some may be intrinsic health issues for black women compared with white women, but that is not the whole story.",Gina Shaw +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20180607/why-women-are-getting-misdiagnosed +","Black women are also even more commonly affected than white women by many conditions that have a tendency to be misdiagnosed, including autoimmune conditions such as lupus, which is two to three times more common in women of color than white women, as well as fibroids, which are almost three times more likely to occur in black women,” says Lee, who’s also former director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health.",Gina Shaw +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20181002/study-blames-southern-diet-for-black-health-woes +","Black Americans are at greater risk of high blood pressure than whites, and a new study suggests the ""Southern"" diet bears much of the blame.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20181002/study-blames-southern-diet-for-black-health-woes +",Experts have long known that blacks are more likely to die of heart disease and stroke than whites -- and that rates of high blood pressure explain a lot of that disparity., +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20181002/study-blames-southern-diet-for-black-health-woes +",But why are blacks more likely to develop high blood pressure?, +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20181002/study-blames-southern-diet-for-black-health-woes +","In fact, the diet explained more than half the excess risk of high blood pressure among black men, versus white men.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20181002/study-blames-southern-diet-for-black-health-woes +","Among women, the eating pattern was less important, but still explained almost 30 percent of the disparity between black and white women, according to the findings.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20181002/study-blames-southern-diet-for-black-health-woes +","But this study, he said, shows that it accounts for much of the black-white racial disparity in high blood pressure.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20181002/study-blames-southern-diet-for-black-health-woes +","By the end of the study, 46 percent of black participants had been diagnosed with high blood pressure, versus one-third of whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20181002/study-blames-southern-diet-for-black-health-woes +","There was no major difference in body mass index (BMI) or waist size between black and white men, Howard said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20181002/study-blames-southern-diet-for-black-health-woes +",Black women had a higher average BMI and waist size than white women -- and those were two key factors in their higher blood pressure., +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20181002/study-blames-southern-diet-for-black-health-woes +","African-Americans are at ""extraordinary risk"" of heart disease and stroke, Howard said, noting that's largely due to high blood pressure.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20160607/us-black-women-get-less-care-to-prevent-breast-cancer-return +","By Kathleen Doheny +HealthDay Reporter +TUESDAY, June 7, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Black breast cancer survivors in the United States are less likely than white or Hispanic women to get follow-up genetic screening and surgeries that can help prevent a return of cancer, new research finds.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20160607/us-black-women-get-less-care-to-prevent-breast-cancer-return +","Among more than 1,600 women diagnosed by age 50, almost twice as many whites were tested for critical BRCA gene mutations as blacks, the researchers found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20160607/us-black-women-get-less-care-to-prevent-breast-cancer-return +","Also, black women were less likely to undergo preventive mastectomy or removal of the ovaries, even though those procedures are known to reduce the risk of a second breast cancer or ovarian cancer, the findings showed. +CONTINUE READING BELOW", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20160607/us-black-women-get-less-care-to-prevent-breast-cancer-return +","Sixty-five percent of white women were tested, versus 62 percent of Hispanic women and just 36 percent of black women.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20160607/us-black-women-get-less-care-to-prevent-breast-cancer-return +","Of the 92 women who tested positive for the BRCA mutation, just 32 percent of black women had preventive ovary removal, compared to 85 percent of Hispanic women and 71 percent of white women.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20160607/us-black-women-get-less-care-to-prevent-breast-cancer-return +","The researchers discovered similar discrepancies regarding preventive mastectomy within the BRCA-positive group: 94 percent of whites and 85 percent of Hispanics had both breasts removed preventively, while just 68 percent of black women did.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20160607/us-black-women-get-less-care-to-prevent-breast-cancer-return +","For instance, four of the black women in the study were still in active treatment, which could help explain the lower rates of ovary removal in that group.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20160607/us-black-women-get-less-care-to-prevent-breast-cancer-return +","Experts also need to learn more about the biology driving breast cancers in black women, Seewaldt added.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050502/discrimination-may-hurt-heart +","In a study of 181 middle-aged black women, those reporting the most chronic discrimination had the highest buildup of calcium in blood vessels of the heart.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050502/discrimination-may-hurt-heart +","These findings suggest that chronic exposure to discrimination may be an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease in African-American women,"" says Tené Lewis, PhD, in a news release.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050502/discrimination-may-hurt-heart +","Last December, the CDC reported that in 1995 heart disease death rates for black women were 2.6 times higher than those of Asian and Pacific Islander women; 2.1 times higher than those of Hispanic, Native American, and Native Alaskan women; and 1.4 times higher than the rates for white women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050502/discrimination-may-hurt-heart +","Among black women, approximately 22% of heart disease deaths from 1991-1995 were premature (before age 65), says the CDC.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050502/discrimination-may-hurt-heart +","There may have been some misreporting of race and ethnicity on death certificates, which may have made heart disease death rates too low for Native Americans, Native Alaskans, and Asian and Pacific Islanders compared with blacks and whites, says the CDC.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050502/discrimination-may-hurt-heart +","Tracking Discrimination +Lewis' study included 181 black women who were 45-58 years old.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050502/discrimination-may-hurt-heart +","""The more discrimination African-American women experience, the more calcium buildup they have,"" says Lewis in a news release.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050502/discrimination-may-hurt-heart +",Discrimination appears to be a stressor that has particular relevance for the health of African-American women.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050502/discrimination-may-hurt-heart +","This is an unavoidable stressor for African-American women,"" says Lewis.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050502/discrimination-may-hurt-heart +","Because we can't change society, we need to focus on helping African-American women cope more effectively with these encounters,"" she says.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20010503/blacks-less-likely-receive-stroke-drug +","Blacks, in particular, are less likely to be given this potentially life saving drug.",Alison Palkhivala +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20010503/blacks-less-likely-receive-stroke-drug +","Most disturbingly, blacks appear to be even less likely to be given the drug than whites.",Alison Palkhivala +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20010503/blacks-less-likely-receive-stroke-drug +","Overall, black patients were one-fifth as likely to get tPA as whites.",Alison Palkhivala +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20010503/blacks-less-likely-receive-stroke-drug +","It was true that African-Americans tended to arrive [at the hospital] a little bit later than whites, but that didn't account for their not receiving tPA as frequently,"" he says.",Alison Palkhivala +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20010503/blacks-less-likely-receive-stroke-drug +","We also looked at whether hospitals that treat more African-Americans are less likely to have the resources necessary to give the drug, but we didn't find any evidence that that was the explanation.",Alison Palkhivala +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20010503/blacks-less-likely-receive-stroke-drug +",Hospitals that treated African-Americans more weren't any more or less likely to give the drug than those that rarely treated them.,Alison Palkhivala +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20010503/blacks-less-likely-receive-stroke-drug +","So far, the only possible explanation he and his team have come up with for the racial difference is that black patients are often less enthusiastic about trying risky therapies than other racial groups.",Alison Palkhivala +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20010503/blacks-less-likely-receive-stroke-drug +","tPA is a little risky because a small subset of patients might get worse when given the drug, so it is possible that some doctors don't even offer the drug to their black patients, expecting that they'll refuse it.",Alison Palkhivala +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20150827/black-women-at-raised-risk-of-carrying-breast-cancer-genes +","By Robert Preidt +HealthDay Reporter +THURSDAY, Aug. 27, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Young black women have a higher rate of breast and ovarian cancer-related gene mutations than previously believed, a new study finds.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20150827/black-women-at-raised-risk-of-carrying-breast-cancer-genes +",This study found that the rate among young black women is much higher., +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20150827/black-women-at-raised-risk-of-carrying-breast-cancer-genes +","Black women younger than 50 are much more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer than white women, but the reasons for this difference are unclear.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20150827/black-women-at-raised-risk-of-carrying-breast-cancer-genes +",The investigators looked at BRCA mutation rates among nearly 400 black women in Florida who were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer before age 50., +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20150827/black-women-at-raised-risk-of-carrying-breast-cancer-genes +","Our results suggest that it may be appropriate to recommend BRCA testing in all black women with invasive breast cancer diagnosed at or below age 50,"" study leader and clinical geneticist Dr. Tuya Pal, from the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., said in a center news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20150827/black-women-at-raised-risk-of-carrying-breast-cancer-genes +","However, the study authors noted that black women are less likely than white women to be referred for or to receive genetic testing and counseling.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20150827/black-women-at-raised-risk-of-carrying-breast-cancer-genes +",The researchers said high-risk black women need improved access to such services., +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20160304/black-womens-hair-styling-choices-can-cause-hair-loss +","By Robert Preidt +HealthDay Reporter +FRIDAY, March 4, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Hair styling practices may be causing black women to experience hair loss, which is a major problem that often goes undiagnosed, a new survey finds.", +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20160304/black-womens-hair-styling-choices-can-cause-hair-loss +","While genetics may play a key role in hair loss among black women, styling practices such as braiding, weaves and chemical relaxing may also increase their risk of hair loss, said dermatologist Dr. Yolanda Lenzy, a clinical associate professor at the University of Connecticut in Farmington.", +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20160304/black-womens-hair-styling-choices-can-cause-hair-loss +","She joined with the Black Women's Health Study at Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center to survey nearly 5,600 black women about their experiences with hair loss.", +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20160304/black-womens-hair-styling-choices-can-cause-hair-loss +","Even though hair loss is common among black women, more than 81 percent of respondents said they had never consulted a doctor about it.", +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20160304/black-womens-hair-styling-choices-can-cause-hair-loss +",The leading cause of hair loss in black women is a condition called central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA)., +"https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/news/20160803/sickle-cell-trait-not-linked-to-early-death-in-study +","In the first-of-its-kind study, researchers followed nearly 48,000 black American soldiers on active duty in the U.S. Army over a four-year period.", +"https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/news/20160803/sickle-cell-trait-not-linked-to-early-death-in-study +","She's an associate professor of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif. +Previous studies have linked sickle cell trait to sharply higher risks of sudden death among black military recruits and black football players on National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division 1 teams.", +"https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/news/20160803/sickle-cell-trait-not-linked-to-early-death-in-study +","While there was no significant difference in death risk, researchers did find that black soldiers with sickle cell trait were 54 percent more likely than their counterparts without the trait to suffer exertional rhabdomyolysis.", +"https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/news/20160803/sickle-cell-trait-not-linked-to-early-death-in-study +","Just over 1 percent of black soldiers with sickle cell trait in the study developed exertional rhabdomyolysis, compared to 0.8 percent of their counterparts without sickle cell trait, Kurina said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171115/diabetes-driving-breast-cancer-rates-up-in-black-women +","Type 2 diabetes may increase the risk for an aggressive type of breast cancer among black women in the United States, a new study finds.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171115/diabetes-driving-breast-cancer-rates-up-in-black-women +","Researchers from Boston University analyzed data from more than 54,000 black women who were cancer-free at the start of the study.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171115/diabetes-driving-breast-cancer-rates-up-in-black-women +","While we observed no association for the most common type of breast cancer, the type that is responsive to estrogens, women with diabetes were estimated to be at increased risk of developing estrogen receptor negative breast cancer, a more aggressive type of breast cancer which is twice as common in U.S. black women as in white women,"" said corresponding author Julie Palmer in a university news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171115/diabetes-driving-breast-cancer-rates-up-in-black-women +","Possible reasons for the increased risk of ER- breast cancer in black women with diabetes include chronic diabetes-related inflammation that can trigger cancer, Palmer suggested.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171115/diabetes-driving-breast-cancer-rates-up-in-black-women +","Given that the prevalence of diabetes is twice as high in African-Americans as in whites, the current finding, if confirmed, may help to explain the higher incidence of ER- breast cancer in African-American women,"" said Palmer.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090930/breast-cancer-deaths-drop-again +",Breast cancer deaths declined among African-American women.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090930/breast-cancer-deaths-drop-again +",But African-Americans are still 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than are white women in the U.S.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090930/breast-cancer-deaths-drop-again +","And although fewer white women are getting diagnosed with breast cancer,rates have remained stable among African-Americans.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090930/breast-cancer-deaths-drop-again +","The state with the lowest breast cancer rate for African-American women is New Mexico, with 60.9 cases per 100,000 women.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090930/breast-cancer-deaths-drop-again +","The state with the highest breast cancer rate for African-American women is Kentucky, with 127.3 cases per 100,000 women.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090930/breast-cancer-deaths-drop-again +","Even though white women are diagnosed with breast cancer at a higher rate than African-American women, they have a lower death rate.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090930/breast-cancer-deaths-drop-again +","Death rates among white women range from 21.7 per 100,000 in Hawaii to 27.3 in New Jersey; among African-American women they range from 20.9 in Rhode Island to 40.0 in Louisiana.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090930/breast-cancer-deaths-drop-again +","This disparity is captured in another statistic: 90% of white women, but only 78% of African-American women, survive at least five years after their breast cancer diagnosis.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20150112/night-shift-may-boost-black-womens-diabetes-risk-study-finds +","Night shift work significantly increases the risk of diabetes in black women, according to a new study.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20150112/night-shift-may-boost-black-womens-diabetes-risk-study-finds +","In view of the high prevalence of shift work among workers in the U.S.A. -- 35 percent among non-Hispanic blacks and 28 percent in non-Hispanic whites -- an increased diabetes risk among this group has important public health implications,"" wrote the study authors from Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20150112/night-shift-may-boost-black-womens-diabetes-risk-study-finds +","The new research included more than 28,000 black women in the United States who were diabetes-free in 2005.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20150112/night-shift-may-boost-black-womens-diabetes-risk-study-finds +","After adjusting for body mass index (BMI -- an estimate of body fat based on height and weight) and lifestyle factors such as diet and smoking, the researchers found that black women who worked night shifts for 10 or more years still had a 23 percent increased risk of developing diabetes.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20150112/night-shift-may-boost-black-womens-diabetes-risk-study-finds +","In the United States, nearly 13 percent of black women have diabetes, compared with 4.5 percent of white women, according to the study.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20060606/breast-cancer-black-women +","June 6, 2006 -- Premenopausal black women with breast cancer may be more likely to have a certain genetic pattern than other breast cancer patients, new research shows.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20060606/breast-cancer-black-women +","The finding may help explain why breast cancer often has a poorer prognosis in black women, write Lisa Carey, MD, and colleagues in The Journal of the American Medical Association.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20060606/breast-cancer-black-women +","While breast cancer is more common among white women, black women are more likely to die of breast cancer.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20060606/breast-cancer-black-women +","The black-white gap may stem from genetic and environmental factors, as well as access to medical care, note Carey and colleagues.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20060606/breast-cancer-black-women +",The group included 196 black women and 300 women who weren't black.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20060606/breast-cancer-black-women +","Most nonblack participants were whites; the group also included 14 Native American, Hispanic, Asian-American, or multiracial women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20060606/breast-cancer-black-women +","Breakthroughs for Women Fighting Breast Cancer +Pattern for Premenopausal Black Women +Carey's team found that one of those genetic subtypes -- which they call ""basal-like tumors"" -- occurred in nearly 40% of premenopausal black women they studied.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20060606/breast-cancer-black-women +","In comparison, that genetic subtype was seen in 14% of postmenopausal black women and 16% of nonblack women of any age, the study shows.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20060606/breast-cancer-black-women +","None of the black women (and few of the nonblack women) in Carey's study tested positive for the BRCA1 genetic mutation, which is linked to a higher risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20060606/breast-cancer-black-women +","Clinical trials are also needed to find therapies for basal-like breast cancer, ""especially for young, black women,"" write Carey and colleagues.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20160429/todays-hair-style-could-cause-tomorrows-hair-loss +","By Robert Preidt +HealthDay Reporter +FRIDAY, April 29, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Black women who like to wear their hair pulled back tightly may be increasing their risk of hair loss, new research suggests.", +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20160429/todays-hair-style-could-cause-tomorrows-hair-loss +","Traction alopecia is the most common type of hair loss among black American women, affecting about one out of three, the researchers said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150113/gene-mutations-linked-to-colon-cancer-in-black-patients +","By Robert Preidt +HealthDay Reporter +TUESDAY, Jan. 13, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers who discovered new gene mutations linked to colon cancer in black Americans say their findings could lead to improved diagnosis and treatment.", +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150113/gene-mutations-linked-to-colon-cancer-in-black-patients +","In the United States, blacks are significantly more likely to develop colon cancer and to die from the disease than other racial groups.", +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150113/gene-mutations-linked-to-colon-cancer-in-black-patients +",The investigators compared 103 colon cancer samples from black patients and 129 samples from white patients treated at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland., +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150113/gene-mutations-linked-to-colon-cancer-in-black-patients +",They found 20 previously unknown gene mutations in the colon samples from black patients., +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150113/gene-mutations-linked-to-colon-cancer-in-black-patients +","About 40 percent of colon cancers in black patients had one or more of these gene mutations, which were three times more common in colon cancers among blacks than among whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150113/gene-mutations-linked-to-colon-cancer-in-black-patients +","This is the first study to perform a comprehensive gene mutation characterization and comparison of these colorectal cancer tumors in two ethnicities -- African-American and Caucasian,"" lead author Dr. Kishore Guda, an assistant professor in General Medical Sciences (Oncology) at Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, said in the news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20150113/gene-mutations-linked-to-colon-cancer-in-black-patients +","Our next step will be to collaborate with other centers in investigating African-American populations in different regions of the United States to determine whether they also share the unique gene signature found in the Cleveland African-American community,"" Guda added.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +","Despite some closure of the racial ""gap"" in breast cancer survival, black women are still more likely to die of the disease than their white peers, the study found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +","Even though the rate of breast cancer diagnosis was slightly lower among black women than whites between 2010 and 2014, over about the same time period, black breast cancer patients were still 42 percent more likely to die of the disease than their white peers.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +","Black patients are more prone to be affected by aggressive, tough-to-treat breast tumors, she noted.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +","So, when it comes to surviving breast cancer, ""there remains a disparity between black women and white women across the country,"" said Coomer, who directs the Florina Rusi-Marke Comprehensive Breast Center at Staten Island University Hospital in New York City.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +","The median age of diagnosis for women overall in the United States is 62, but the disease tends to strike black women at a younger age, the report showed.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +","The median age for breast cancer deaths is 68, but black patients died younger -- at 62, on average.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +","All of this means that, overall, breast cancer kills more black women than white women in the United States.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +","For example, breast cancer death rates among black women ranged from 22 percent in Nevada to 66 percent in Louisiana, the report found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +",But in seven states the researchers saw no significant difference in death rates between black and white patients -- showing that the racial gap can be closed., +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +","While genetics and differences in overall health play a big role in the survival gap between blacks and whites, so do ""social and structural factors,"" said Carol DeSantis, of the ACS's surveillance and health services research branch.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +","Coomer agreed, saying that black women with aggressive tumors, in particular, ""would be better served with health care teams or centers that provide comprehensive breast treatment.""", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20171003/breast-cancer-decline-may-have-saved-322000-lives +","The fact that we are finally seeing a close in the gap between our excellent outcomes between black and white women is also encouraging,"" she said, ""especially since black women are more likely to be diagnosed with the more aggressive triple-negative breast cancers.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071127/black-womens-breast-cancer-risk-tested +","Nov. 27, 2007 -- Researchers have created a new way to estimate African-American women's odds of developing breast cancer.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071127/black-womens-breast-cancer-risk-tested +","The method uses statistics to gauge breast cancer risk in African-American women based on three factors: +Age, including age at first menstrual period +Mother and/or sister(s) with breast cancer +Number of previous benign breast biopsies (biopsies showing no cancer)",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071127/black-womens-breast-cancer-risk-tested +","That study included some 1,600 African-American women with breast cancer and a similar number of African-American women without breast cancer.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071127/black-womens-breast-cancer-risk-tested +","The researchers crunched the numbers, added in figures from a national cancer database, and then checked the results against other studies of beast cancer in African-American women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071127/black-womens-breast-cancer-risk-tested +","The CARE model was accurate in gauging breast cancer risk in African-American women, although it underestimated the significance of having previous benign breast biopsies.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071127/black-womens-breast-cancer-risk-tested +","The CARE model needs to be validated in other studies, but Gail's team recommends the CARE model for counseling African-American women about breast cancer risk.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071008/blacks-breast-cancer-treatment-lacking +","Oct. 8, 2007 -- African-American women may miss out on potentially lifesaving supplemental treatments for breast cancer that may prevent the cancer from returning.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071008/blacks-breast-cancer-treatment-lacking +",A new study shows white women with more advanced breast cancer were more than four times more likely to take the breast cancer drug tamoxifen and three times more likely to receive chemotherapy than African-American women.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071008/blacks-breast-cancer-treatment-lacking +","""We have seen that African-American women are not getting the optimal therapy as often as white Americans,"" says researcher Mousumi Banerjee, PhD, of the University of Michigan, in a news release.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071008/blacks-breast-cancer-treatment-lacking +",""" +African-American women are more likely to die of breast cancer than white women.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071008/blacks-breast-cancer-treatment-lacking +","For example, African-American women are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage of the disease.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071008/blacks-breast-cancer-treatment-lacking +","Among those whose breast cancer had not spread to surrounding tissues, the results showed no significant differences in treatment received, such as the number of white and African-American women who received breast conservation surgery vs. mastectomy.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071008/blacks-breast-cancer-treatment-lacking +","But among women whose cancer had spread to the lymph nodes or surrounding tissue, white women were more than four times more likely to receive the widely used breast cancer drug tamoxifen than African-American women.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071008/blacks-breast-cancer-treatment-lacking +","In addition, African-American women were three times less likely to receive chemotherapy as a supplemental breast cancer treatment.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071008/blacks-breast-cancer-treatment-lacking +",Researchers say the results suggest that culturally sensitive ways to increase use of supplemental breast cancer treatments may be needed to improve the treatment of African-American women with breast cancer.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20100325/racial-gap-in-us-breastfeeding-rates +","Nationwide, 54.4% of African-American mothers, 74.3% white mothers, and 80.4% of Hispanic mothers attempted to breastfeed, according to a CDC telephone survey.",Katrina Woznicki +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20100325/racial-gap-in-us-breastfeeding-rates +",Breastfeeding rates lagged most for African-American mothers living in the Southeast.,Katrina Woznicki +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20100325/racial-gap-in-us-breastfeeding-rates +","CDC researchers found that in 13 states, primarily in the Southeast, African-American mothers had breastfeeding initiation rates at least 20% lower than white mothers.",Katrina Woznicki +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20100325/racial-gap-in-us-breastfeeding-rates +","In six states (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina), the prevalence of initiating breastfeeding among African-American women was less than 45%.",Katrina Woznicki +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20100325/racial-gap-in-us-breastfeeding-rates +","In 1984, nationwide, 65% of white mothers and 33% of African-American mothers initiated breastfeeding; by 2005, that gap had narrowed to 77% of white mothers and 61% of African-American mothers.",Katrina Woznicki +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20100325/racial-gap-in-us-breastfeeding-rates +","To continue to work toward reducing racial/ethnic disparities in breastfeeding, CDC is reassessing strategies for promoting and supporting breastfeeding among non-Hispanic black women.",Katrina Woznicki +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +","When it comes to diagnosing prostate cancer at an early stage, black men's biggest hurdle may be poor access to trusted medical care.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +",They studied 555 men -- 348 whites and 207 blacks -- newly diagnosed with prostate cancer and living in North Carolina.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +",The study shows that black men knew about their risk but faced disadvantages in access to medical care.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +","Better access to medical care may help black men get diagnosed with prostate cancer sooner, the researchers note.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +",Blacks tended to be younger than whites.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +","Black men were more likely to have lower-income jobs, no health insurance, and blue-collar jobs.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +","Black men are more likely than white men to die of prostate cancer, and the black men in this study reported knowing that they were at increased risk for prostate cancer before diagnosis.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +","""African American men were aware of their increased risk of prostate cancer, and they felt responsible for getting themselves to physicians for preventative care.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +","Distrust of Doctors +Most men -- black or white -- expressed trust in their doctors.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +","But 85% of black men reported 'completely"" or ""mostly"" trusting their doctors, compared with 96% of white men.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +","That may be because black men were more likely to go to emergency rooms for medical care, where they might not always see the same doctor, the researchers note.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +",Cultural suspicion of doctors and medical care didn't seem to be a big issue among the black men.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20070312/prostate-cancer-black-white-race-gap +","Black men were also more likely than whites to say they requested prostate cancer screening, while whites generally said their doctors recommended prostate cancer screening tests.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070813/new-clues-in-breast-cancer-race-gap +","Aug. 13, 2007 -- Breast cancer death rates may be nearly 40% higher for African-American women than white women with the same stage of breast cancer, a new study shows.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070813/new-clues-in-breast-cancer-race-gap +","McBride's team reviewed U.S. data on more than 21,000 African-American women and more than 234,000 white women diagnosed with breast cancer between 1988 and 2003.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070813/new-clues-in-breast-cancer-race-gap +",The researchers compared African-American women and white women who were diagnosed with the same stagesof breast cancer.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070813/new-clues-in-breast-cancer-race-gap +","After considering various factors, African-American women were 39% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women diagnosed with the same stage of breast cancer.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070813/new-clues-in-breast-cancer-race-gap +",African-American women were more likely than white women to have larger breast tumors and more than one lymph node affected by breast cancer.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070813/new-clues-in-breast-cancer-race-gap +",Past studies show that African-American women are more likely to have particularly aggressive breast cancers and less likely to get appropriate treatment than white women.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070813/new-clues-in-breast-cancer-race-gap +","The factors that prevent black women from receiving the same quality of care as white women may be exacerbated by the more complex treatment regimens used for more advanced breast cancer,"" write McBride and colleagues.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20080512/heart-disease-lurks-obese-americans +","Study participants from other ethnic groups fared poorly: +60% to 85% of white, African-American, and Hispanic participants were overweight.","Miranda Hitti, Daniel J. DeNoon" +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20080512/heart-disease-lurks-obese-americans +",30% to 40% of white and Hispanic participants were obese; this also held true for African-,"Miranda Hitti, Daniel J. DeNoon" +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20080512/heart-disease-lurks-obese-americans +","American men +More than 50% of African-American women were obese.","Miranda Hitti, Daniel J. DeNoon" +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +","July 8, 2009 -- Black women have a lower incidence of breast cancer than white women, but once diagnosed they are more likely to die of the disease.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +",Poverty and inferior treatment could not explain the poorer survival among black breast cancer patients compared to whites in one of the studies because all the patients received the same treatments as participants in government-sponsored clinical trials.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +","Black trial participants were also more likely than whites to die of prostate and ovarian cancer, but they were no more likely to die of lung cancer, colon cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, or multiple myeloma.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +","The big news here is that for the majority of cancers there is no survival disparity between blacks and whites when access to care is equalized,” lead researcher Kathy S. Albain, MD, of Loyola University tells WebMD.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +","Survival Poorer for Black Women With Breast Cancer +Black women are more likely than white women to have estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancers, which are more deadly than ER-positive tumors.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +","Black women were significantly more likely than white women to die of their disease, especially in the years immediately following diagnosis, regardless of their estrogen-receptor status.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +","American Cancer Society chief medical officer Otis Brawley, MD, tells WebMD that the Albain study is not the first to suggest that poorer access does not completely explain the higher death rate among black patients for sex-related cancers.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +",But he does not accept Albain’s assertion that there must be genetic or biologic differences between black and white cancer patients that affect cancer survival.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +",He points out that death rates from breast cancer were the same for black patients and white patients until about 1980.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +","This is also about the time when obesity began to be a problem in the United States, with the black population affected more than the white population.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +","In an editorial examining the two studies, Brawley writes that even biologically driven differences in survival between black and white cancer patients may still be influenced by factors such as culture and poverty.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20090708/does-race-affect-cancer-survival +","” +Brawley says the research convinces him that if access to medical care were equal and more emphasis was placed on preventive care, the cancer survival disparity between blacks and whites would largely disappear.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20150819/black-women-less-likely-to-survive-uterine-cancer-study-finds +","By Robert Preidt +HealthDay Reporter +WEDNESDAY, Aug. 19, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Uterine cancer rates are rising in the United States, particularly among black and Asian women, according to a new study that also found black women are more likely to die of the disease.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20150819/black-women-less-likely-to-survive-uterine-cancer-study-finds +","But rates increased fastest, at 2.5 percent a year, among black and Asian women.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20150819/black-women-less-likely-to-survive-uterine-cancer-study-finds +","Black women also had higher rates of aggressive uterine cancer than Asian, Hispanic and white women, and death rates for aggressive uterine cancer were more than 1.5 times higher among black women than among white women.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20150819/black-women-less-likely-to-survive-uterine-cancer-study-finds +",A five-year analysis found that black women had poorer survival rates than white women at every stage of diagnosis., +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20150819/black-women-less-likely-to-survive-uterine-cancer-study-finds +","It was somewhat surprising that the [uterine] cancer survival disparity we identified was limited to non-Hispanic black women, because many of the challenges previously linked to worse outcomes, including low socioeconomic status and high rates of obesity and diabetes, are also experienced by Hispanic women, but that population did not have poor outcomes,"" she said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070517/hair-relaxers-no-breast-cancer-link +","May 17, 2007 -- Chemical “relaxers” commonly used by black women to straighten hair are not associated with any increased risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new study.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070517/hair-relaxers-no-breast-cancer-link +","Black women aged 45 or younger are more likely to develop breast cancer than white women of the same age, and black women of any age are more likely to die of the disease than white women.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070517/hair-relaxers-no-breast-cancer-link +","But researchers say the increased risk among black women is not fully explained by known breast cancer risk factors, such as family history of the disease.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070517/hair-relaxers-no-breast-cancer-link +","Therefore, other potential causes of breast cancer among black women are currently under investigation.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070517/hair-relaxers-no-breast-cancer-link +","Because hair relaxers are more widely used by younger African-American women than they are used by older African-American women, a connection with increased risk of breast cancer in younger women seemed possible,” says Rosenberg.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070517/hair-relaxers-no-breast-cancer-link +","Also, millions of African-American women use hair relaxers, and substances that are used by millions of women over a span of many years should be monitored for safety.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070517/hair-relaxers-no-breast-cancer-link +","The study, published in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, followed nearly 50,000 African-American women who participated in the Black Women’s Health study from 1997 to 2003.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +",""" +African-American MSM:",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +",But America's HIV epidemic is vastly worse for African Americans than for any other racial or ethnic group.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +",Half of U.S. HIV infections are among African Americans.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +",And African-American men are seven times more likely to have HIV than white men are.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +","Nearly half of African-American MSM -- 46% -- are HIV positive, CDC researcher Gregorio Millett noted at the news conference.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +",Millett's team conducted a painstaking analysis of data on African-American MSM collected in 53 studies conducted from 1980 through 2006.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +","The study showed that: +African-American MSM are no more likely than white MSM to report unsafe sexual activity.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +",During the 1980s -- but not from 1990-2006 -- African-American MSM were 60% more likely than white MSM to report unprotected anal intercourse.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +",African-American MSM tend to have fewer sex partners than white MSM.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +","African-American MSM were 36% less likely than white MSM to report use of drugs linked to HIV infection -- that is, injection drugs, crack or cocaine, opiates, and amphetamines.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +",African-American MSM are no more likely than white MSM to report commercial sex work or sex with known HIV-positive partners.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +",HIV-positive African-American MSM are only half as likely as white MSM to be taking anti-HIV drugs.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +",African-American MSM are 71% less likely than white MSM to think of themselves as gay and 58% less likely to disclose their same-sex behavior to others.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20071204/cdc-unsafe-sex-common-for-hivpoz-men +",Millett's team is now investigating social network factors that may affect HIV transmission among African-American MSM.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/news/20111117/chlamydia-tops-stds-reported-cdc +",The rate of chlamydia among African-Americans is over eight times higher than the rate among whites.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/news/20111117/chlamydia-tops-stds-reported-cdc +","However, among both African-Americans and whites chlamydia rates are increasing at about the same speed.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/news/20111117/chlamydia-tops-stds-reported-cdc +","The rate among African-American men has gone up 134% over the last five years, driven mainly by an increase among young African-American men who have sex with other men.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20081002/more-americans-living-with-hiv +",And it's a raging wildfire among African-Americans:,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20081002/more-americans-living-with-hiv +",African-Americans make up 12% of the U.S. population and 46% of those with HIV.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20081002/more-americans-living-with-hiv +",18 times more African-American women than white women have HIV.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20081002/more-americans-living-with-hiv +",Six times more African-American men than white men have HIV.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20081002/more-americans-living-with-hiv +","The disparity isn't limited to African-Americans: +Hispanic-Americans make up 15% of the U.S. population yet account for 18% of those with HIV.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20061012/race-hormones-may-sway-breast-cancer +","The group included 240 black women, 231 Latinas, 96 Japanese-Americans, 91 whites, and 81 Native Hawaiians.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20061012/race-hormones-may-sway-breast-cancer +","Native Hawaiians had the highest breast cancer rates, followed by Japanese-Americans, whites, blacks, and Latinas.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20061012/race-hormones-may-sway-breast-cancer +",Blacks and Japanese-Americans had higher estrogen levels than whites.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/news/20080925/fatty-liver-disease-genes-affect-risk +",Newly discovered gene variants explain why Hispanics are most likely -- and African-Americans are least likely -- to have fatty livers.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/news/20080925/fatty-liver-disease-genes-affect-risk +","Fatty livers occur in 33% of European-Americans, 45% of Hispanic-Americans, and 24% of African-Americans.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/news/20080925/fatty-liver-disease-genes-affect-risk +","The variant was seen in 49% of Hispanic-Americans, 23% of European-Americans, and 17% of African-Americans in the study.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/news/20080925/fatty-liver-disease-genes-affect-risk +",Another PNPLA3 gene variant -- seen much more often in African-Americans than in Americans of other ancestry -- is linked to lower risk of liver fat.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20101004/exercise-fights-breast-cancer +","Postmenopausal African-American women who exercise vigorously for more than two hours a week can reduce their risk of developing breast cancer by 64% compared to women of the same race who are sedentary, according to new research.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20101004/exercise-fights-breast-cancer +","Scientists identified 97 African-American breast cancer patients living in the Washington, D.C., area, matching them with 102 women of the same race who had not been diagnosed with the disease.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20101004/exercise-fights-breast-cancer +","We also know from other studies that being physically active can have benefits in other diseases that occur at high rates in African-American women, such as diabetes and hypertension,” Sheppard says.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20101004/exercise-fights-breast-cancer +","Four out of five African-American women are either overweight or obese, and disease control is a particularly important issue for them.” +Aggressive Breast Cancer",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20101004/exercise-fights-breast-cancer +","The issue is important, Sheppard says, because while more white women are diagnosed with breast cancer, there are important differences in breast cancer between white and African-American women.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20101004/exercise-fights-breast-cancer +","African-American women, for example, are at higher risk of developing pre-menopausal breast cancer than are white women, and comparatively, more African-American women develop the most aggressive form of the disease, which is known as triple-negative breast cancer.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20101004/exercise-fights-breast-cancer +","She says, however, that it’s “fair to conclude that if African-American women exercise, they can help take charge of their health.”",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20060511/weight-loss-black-women +",Scientists have come up with a new clue about why weight loss may be particularly hard for obese black women.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20060511/weight-loss-black-women +","The clue lies in the belly fat of the 14 extremely obese black women studied by Hisham Barakat, PhD, and colleagues.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20060511/weight-loss-black-women +","Past studies have shown that ""obese African-American women lose less weight and at a slower rate than Caucasian women do across a variety of treatments including conservative interventions, very low calorie intake, and surgery,"" Barakat's team writes in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20060511/weight-loss-black-women +",The researchers studied 14 white women and 14 black women.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20060511/weight-loss-black-women +","Belly Fat Clue +Barakat and colleagues found that the obese black women had more adenosine receptors in their deep abdominal fat than the obese white women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20060511/weight-loss-black-women +",The researchers note that their findings don't totally explain why weight loss may be harder for obese black women than for obese white women.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20060511/weight-loss-black-women +","However, they write that the results ""shed light on potential causes behind the lesser and slower rate of weight lose of obese [African-American] women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20060511/weight-loss-black-women +","""These findings might be helpful in designing new strategies for the control and prevention of obesity in [African-American women] and other women as well,"" write Barakat and colleagues.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071129/why-is-cancer-worse-minorities +",Why is cancer more deadly for African-Americans and Hispanics than for white Americans?,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071129/why-is-cancer-worse-minorities +","Breast Cancer Genes Work Differently in African-Americans +When an American woman of European descent gets breast cancer, her odds of survival are significantly better than an African-American woman who gets the same cancer.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071129/why-is-cancer-worse-minorities +","ADVERTISEMENT +Most observers have written this disparity off to African-American women's relatively poorer access to health care.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071129/why-is-cancer-worse-minorities +","But recent studies that account for health care access, income, and other social factors still find that African-American women are more likely to die when they get breast cancer.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071129/why-is-cancer-worse-minorities +","This led National Cancer Institute researcher Damali N. Martin, PhD, MPH, and colleagues to take a closer look at breast cancer samples from African-American women.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071129/why-is-cancer-worse-minorities +","In the first part of their study, the researchers found that African-American women's breast tumors tended to have more blood vessels than tumors from white American women.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071129/why-is-cancer-worse-minorities +",Tumors from African-American women were also surrounded by more of the immune cells called tumor macrophages.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071129/why-is-cancer-worse-minorities +",Were the tumors in African-American women really different?,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071129/why-is-cancer-worse-minorities +","In a pilot study of tumor genes from 18 African-American women and 17 white American women, they found that the tumors from African-American women were much more active in promoting growth of tumor blood vessels.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071129/why-is-cancer-worse-minorities +","This indicates to us that genes involved in blood vessel development and immune system function may play a role in the tumors we see in African-American women,"" Martin tells WebMD.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20071129/why-is-cancer-worse-minorities +",And this brings up the issue of African-Americans and Latinos when it comes to research.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20100923/1-in-5-gay-bi-men-have-hiv-nearly-half-dont-know +",Black gay/bi men and under-30 gay/bi adults are least likely to know of their HIV infections.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20100923/1-in-5-gay-bi-men-have-hiv-nearly-half-dont-know +","28% of black, 18% of Hispanic, and 16% of white men tested positive for HIV.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20100923/1-in-5-gay-bi-men-have-hiv-nearly-half-dont-know +","59% of black, 46% of Hispanic, and 26% of white men who tested positive for HIV were unaware of their infection.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20091112/boomers-doomed-to-disability +","ADVERTISEMENT +Disability was significantly more likely among obese or overweight 60-somethings and among African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20091117/men-face-higher-odds-of_sudden_cardiac_death +","Men age 40 and over have a one in eight chance of suffering sudden cardiac death, and the risk is even higher for African-American men, a study shows.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20091117/men-face-higher-odds-of_sudden_cardiac_death +","Among the findings: +African-American men had about twice the risk of sudden cardiac death as white men at any given age.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20091117/men-face-higher-odds-of_sudden_cardiac_death +",Risks were similar for African-American and white women in all age groups.,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20010827/are-team-sports-failing-some-youth +",Alcohol use and delinquent behavior is actually more common among rural African-American girls who play team sports.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20010827/are-team-sports-failing-some-youth +","Matthew J. Taylor, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, analyzed drug use and behavior data collected from some 4,000 black girls attending high school in rural communities.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20070503/little-change-in-infant-mortality-rate +","Black mothers had the highest infant mortality rate -- 13.6 infants per 1,000 live births.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20110803/50000-new-hiv-infections-each-year-in-us +",Even more striking is the 48% increase in new HIV infections among black gay and bisexual men,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20110803/50000-new-hiv-infections-each-year-in-us +",Why such a high rate among these young black men?,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20110803/50000-new-hiv-infections-each-year-in-us +",Frieden noted that black gay/bi men do not have more individual risk factors than white gay/bi men.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20110803/50000-new-hiv-infections-each-year-in-us +","These black men have fewer sex partners, are less likely to use drugs when having sex, and are no more likely to report unprotected anal intercourse than white men,"" Frieden said.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20110803/50000-new-hiv-infections-each-year-in-us +",Young black men have more sexually transmitted infections.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20110803/50000-new-hiv-infections-each-year-in-us +",Black men who have sex with men are also more likely to have undiagnosed infections.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20110803/50000-new-hiv-infections-each-year-in-us +","Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, director of the CDC's AIDS center, said at the teleconference that the CDC is targeting young gay men -- young black men in particular -- with HIV prevention efforts.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",It's one of the biggest puzzles in public health: Why is hypertension -- high blood pressure -- so deadly and so difficult to control in African Americans?,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",It suggests that many African Americans retain salt as a physical response to stress.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",It suggests that certain kinds of drugs that are not generally used on African Americans would be effective.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +","African Americans with hypertension, he found, have only a 5% drop.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +","After resting, African Americans had continued to have significantly higher blood pressures when compared with the white participants, Harshfield reported at a scientific conference sponsored this week by the American Physiological Society.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",But the African Americans whose blood pressure stayed high didn't respond this way.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +","It may be more frequent in African Americans, but it's much more complex than we first thought.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",African Americans and Hypertension Drugs,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",One of the issues surrounds African American patients.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",Some data suggest that these drugs may not be as useful in African Americans as they are in whites.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",But Harshfield says that wide-reaching effects of these drugs -- known as ACE inhibitors and ARBs -- may be particularly helpful to African Americans with stress-induced salt retention.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +","""These drugs haven't been used as first-line agents in African Americans,"" he says.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",", N.J. +Arora says that the abnormal salt retention Harshfield reports may be just one of several issues: +Some African Americans with hypertension may need higher doses of ACE inhibitors and ARBs than white Americans.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +","Some African Americans may not do better with ACE inhibitors and ARBs but may need older, diuretic drugs.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",Diuretic drugs may make African Americans respond better to ACE inhibitors and ARBs.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",African Americans' stress-related salt retention may be different.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +","For example, Arora says, African Americans may have a genetic susceptibility to the adverse effects of stress hormones.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20031002/clue-to-high-bp-in-african-americans +",A plethora of problems may contribute to this conundrum of African Americans' hypertension being more advanced and more difficult to control.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20080122/heart-stroke-deaths-decline-in-us +","Gains for women, African-Americans, people living in the South, and people with lower income levels lag behind the national average. +CONTINUE",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20080122/heart-stroke-deaths-decline-in-us +",If you combine those -- say for African-Americans living in the Deep South -- there is a substantial disparity.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20050207/african-americans-need-higher-doses-of-asthma-drugs +","- African-Americans may need a bigger dose of asthma medications in order to keep their asthma under control, according to a new study.", +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20050207/african-americans-need-higher-doses-of-asthma-drugs +","Researchers found that African-Americans required a higher dose of glucocorticoids, a class of steroid drugs used to treat asthma.", +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20050207/african-americans-need-higher-doses-of-asthma-drugs +","Regardless of asthma status or severity, African-Americans in our study required higher doses of a glucocorticoid than Caucasians to inhibit proliferation of these inflammatory cells,"" says researcher Ronina A. Covar, MD, of the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver in a news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20050207/african-americans-need-higher-doses-of-asthma-drugs +",This observation suggests that African-Americans may have an inherent predisposition that affects their ability to respond to certain medications at recommended doses., +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20050207/african-americans-need-higher-doses-of-asthma-drugs +",Researchers say the finding may help explain why African-Americans are about four times more likely to be hospitalized or die due to asthma than Caucasians., +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20050207/african-americans-need-higher-doses-of-asthma-drugs +",African-Americans Respond to Asthma Drug Differently, +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20050207/african-americans-need-higher-doses-of-asthma-drugs +","In the study, which appears in the February issue of Chest, researchers tested blood samples from 395 patients with asthma (27% African-Americans) and 202 patients without asthma (52% African-Americans) to see how they responded to treatment with glucocorticoids.", +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20050207/african-americans-need-higher-doses-of-asthma-drugs +","The results showed that among a group of African-American and Caucasian asthma patients with similar degrees of airflow restriction, the African-American patients required higher doses of the glucocorticoid medication to suppress lymphocytes.", +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20050207/african-americans-need-higher-doses-of-asthma-drugs +",This difference in drug response between African-Americans and Caucasians was also found among people without asthma., +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20050207/african-americans-need-higher-doses-of-asthma-drugs +","Covar says that a suboptimal response to asthma medications may contribute to poor asthma control and, therefore, higher rates of asthma-related complications and death among African-Americans.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20100831/blood-clot-risk-from-stents-seen-in-african-americans +","African-Americans may be at an increased risk for developing life-threatening blood clots after receiving drug-coated stents that are meant to keep their arteries open, new research shows.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20100831/blood-clot-risk-from-stents-seen-in-african-americans +","Of these study participants, 22% were African-American.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20100831/blood-clot-risk-from-stents-seen-in-african-americans +",The analysis showed that African-Americans were nearly three times as likely to develop clots after receiving drug-coated stents than their non-African-American counterparts.,Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20100831/blood-clot-risk-from-stents-seen-in-african-americans +",African-Americans had increased rates of stent thrombosis even though they took anticlotting medication at a higher rate than people of other races.,Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20100831/blood-clot-risk-from-stents-seen-in-african-americans +","Physicians and patients need to know that African-Americans are at a higher risk of developing stent thrombosis, which is associated with heart attack or death.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20100831/blood-clot-risk-from-stents-seen-in-african-americans +",""" +Role of Genetics +Exactly why African-Americans are at higher risk for developing blood clots with drug-coated stents is not fully understood.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +","Sept. 6, 2007 - African-American women are more likely than white women to develop aggressive breast tumors that are notoriously difficult to treat, U.S. researchers report.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +","An analysis of national data on nearly 100,000 cases of invasive breast cancer shows that 39% of African-American women have tumors that are not fueled by estrogen, compared with 22% of white women.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +","Ninety percent of the women were white, and the rest were African-",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +","Results showed that regardless of their stage of disease, age, or income, black women with invasive cancers were more likely than their white counterparts to have ER-negative tumors.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +","Among women with either invasive cancer or DCIS, blacks were diagnosed at a younger age: 57 years, on average, vs. 62 years for whites.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +",African-American women also had larger tumors at diagnosis: 2.0 centimeters in diameter vs. 1.5 centimeters for white women.,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +",I tumors that are still confined to the breast and therefore easier to treat vs. 29% of African-American women.,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +","The findings may help explain one of the paradoxes in cancer care: Why black women have a lower risk of developing breast cancer in their lifetime, but are at higher risk of dying from their disease, says researcher M. Catherine Lee, MD, a clinical lecturer in the department of surgery at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center in Ann Arbor.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +","The fact that black women in all income groups were at higher risk of having ER-negative tumors ""really shows that biology plays a role in explaining the breast cancer paradox.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +","Why the Disparity? +Len Lichtenfeld, MD, ACS deputy chief medical officer, says he believes that the major factor driving the racial gap continues to be access to care and prompt and adequate treatment for African-Americans.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +","ACS data show that 119 of 100,000 black women will develop the cancer vs. 141 per 100,000 white women.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070906/deadly-breast-tumors-higher-in-blacks +","But 35 of every 100,000 black women will die from the disease, compared with only 26 of every 100,000 white women.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20111025/african-americans-with-diabetes-in-pregnancy-have-higher-risk-of-future-diabetes +","Oct. 21 2011 -- African-American women who develop pregnancy-related diabetes, called gestational diabetes, are more likely to develop diabetes in the future, a new study shows.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20111025/african-americans-with-diabetes-in-pregnancy-have-higher-risk-of-future-diabetes +",African-American women are less likely than other women to develop gestational diabetes in the first place.,Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20111025/african-americans-with-diabetes-in-pregnancy-have-higher-risk-of-future-diabetes +","And this is particularly important for African-American women,"" says study researcher Anny H. Xiang, MD.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20111025/african-americans-with-diabetes-in-pregnancy-have-higher-risk-of-future-diabetes +",The reasons that African-American women face a higher risk for developing diabetes in the future are not known.,Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20111025/african-americans-with-diabetes-in-pregnancy-have-higher-risk-of-future-diabetes +",An African-American woman's risk of developing diabetes was almost 10 times greater if she had developed gestational diabetes during a past pregnancy than if she did not.,Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20111025/african-americans-with-diabetes-in-pregnancy-have-higher-risk-of-future-diabetes +",Preventing Diabetes in African-American Women,Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20111025/african-americans-with-diabetes-in-pregnancy-have-higher-risk-of-future-diabetes +","Gianluca Iacobellis, MD, PhD, says African-American women are more prone to type 2 diabetes than some other racial/ethnic groups.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +","African-Americans are at particularly high risk, a new study shows.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +","The major findings: +On average, African-American men in the study were three years younger than the white men, yet African-American men's fitness capacity was 7% lower than that of white men.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +","On average, African-American women in the study were four years younger than the white women.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +",Yet African-American women's fitness capacity was 3% lower than that of white women.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +",African-American men were more likely to be obese than white men: 44% vs. 33%.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +",African-American women were more likely to be obese than white women: 37% vs. 27%.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +","African-American women were also more likely than white women to be severely obese: 19% vs. 11%. +CONTINUE READING BELOW",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +","""Even correcting for obesity, African-Americans are slightly less fit,"" Lavie tells WebMD.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +",Our data support [that] this is of even greater urgency in African-Americans.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +","But in African-Americans, we need even greater attention not only to reducing weight, but in improving fitness.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +",She has studied African-American children living in the rural south and found high levels of obesity and low levels of fitness.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +","""Being African-American myself, I can conjecture about what is happening,"" Davis tells WebMD.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +",To call it a black obesity problem is to miss the point -- we have an obesity problem.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +","Unfortunately, she notes, many African-Americans face restraints on becoming more physically active.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20041213/fitness-problem-for-african-americans +",She says there is a critical need for aggressive interventions to improve diet and exercise for African-American children and teens.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20110411/braids-weaves-raise-risk-of-hair-loss +","Seen predominately in African-American women, this type of hair loss, central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, centers on the vertex (crown) of the scalp and spreads peripherally.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20110411/braids-weaves-raise-risk-of-hair-loss +","In the study, 326 African-American women answered questionnaires about their hair-grooming methods, health status, and other demographic information.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20110411/braids-weaves-raise-risk-of-hair-loss +",Hair Loss in African-American Women,Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/hair-loss/news/20110411/braids-weaves-raise-risk-of-hair-loss +",It is an epidemic among African-American women with a history of tight braids and weaves.,Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071226/breast-cancer-blacks-new-gene-clues +","African-American women diagnosed with breast cancer in their mid-30s or younger appear to be more likely than most other women to have a genetic predisposition for the disease, new research suggests.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071226/breast-cancer-blacks-new-gene-clues +","While African-American women as a group had a lower prevalence of BRCA1 mutations than most white and Hispanic women in the study, African-American women diagnosed with breast cancer before age 35 were roughly twice as likely to carry the mutations.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071226/breast-cancer-blacks-new-gene-clues +","If confirmed in larger studies, this finding could help explain why African-Americans tend to develop more aggressive and deadly breast cancers than other racial groups, says researcher Esther M. John, PhD, of the Northern California Cancer Center.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071226/breast-cancer-blacks-new-gene-clues +","For whatever reason, African-American women are less likely to be tested [for BRCA mutations] than white women,"" John tells WebMD.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071226/breast-cancer-blacks-new-gene-clues +","Researchers confirmed a high prevalence of BRCA1 mutations among women of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, with 8.3% of these patients carrying the mutations compared to 3.5% of Hispanic women, 2.2% of non-Hispanic white women, 1.3% of African-American women, and 0.5% of Asian-American women.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071226/breast-cancer-blacks-new-gene-clues +","Roughly 17% of African-American patients diagnosed with breast cancer prior to age 35 carried a BRCA1 mutation, compared to 8.9% of Hispanic patients, 7.2% of non-white Hispanics without Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, and 2.4% of Asian-American patients.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071226/breast-cancer-blacks-new-gene-clues +","Just 30 of the 341 African-American study participants were younger than 35, and five of them tested positive for BRCA1 mutations.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20091026/u-s-kids-may-need-more-vitamin-d +","Oct. 26, 2009 -- Millions of children in the U.S. may not get enough vitamin D, and African-American and Hispanic kids are especially at risk, a new study suggests.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20091026/u-s-kids-may-need-more-vitamin-d +","Slightly more than two out of three had levels below 75 nmol/L, including four out of five Hispanic children and more than nine out of 10 non-Hispanic, black children.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20120510/about-1-in-5-white-women-smokes-while-pregnant +","White women who are pregnant are more likely to smoke cigarettes than African-American or Hispanic mothers-to-be, a new government report shows.",Cari Nierenberg +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20120510/about-1-in-5-white-women-smokes-while-pregnant +",The study found that pregnant white women had high rates of cigarette smoking at 21.8% compared with 14.2% among African-American women and 6.5% among Hispanic women.,Cari Nierenberg +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20120510/about-1-in-5-white-women-smokes-while-pregnant +","According to the new study, levels of self-reported alcohol use were fairly similar between pregnant white women (12.2%) and pregnant African-American women (12.8%).",Cari Nierenberg +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20120510/about-1-in-5-white-women-smokes-while-pregnant +","Over an eight-year period, African-American women were found to have the highest rates of illegal drug use during pregnancy at 7.7%, followed by 4.4% in white women.",Cari Nierenberg +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20170421/henrietta-lacks-film-highlights-research-issues +","The story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American cervical cancer patient whose tumor cells changed the course of biomedical research, will debut on HBO on Saturday in a new movie starring Oprah Winfrey.",Nick Mulcahy +"https://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/eczema/news/20070904/doctor-visits-up-for-kids-eczema +","The trend was stronger for African-American and Asian children than for white children, and for toddlers and young kids, compared with older children and teens.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20000311/breast-cancer-researcher-discredited +","An on-site review of data from a South African researcher who claimed that high-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant increases survival of women with high-risk breast cancer turned up glaring discrepancies, omissions, and data that bore little resemblance to the findings he had previously reported, say a team of U.S. investigators in the March 10 issue of The Lancet.",Neil Osterweil +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20000311/breast-cancer-researcher-discredited +",South African researcher Werner Bezwoda had claimed some success in giving high-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants to women with high-risk breast cancer when other teams reported they found no benefit with the treatment.,Neil Osterweil +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20001114/heart-health-of-us-women-alarmingly-poor +",The American Heart Association is sounding a warning to American women: Only one in 10 white women and just one in 20 African-American women can be considered at low risk for death from heart disease.,Peggy Peck +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20001114/heart-health-of-us-women-alarmingly-poor +",Mosca says that only 10% of white women and 5% of African-American women fit that low-risk profile.,Peggy Peck +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20001114/heart-health-of-us-women-alarmingly-poor +","Moreover, she says that when one considers women who fit the high-risk categories for heart problems -- meaning they have a history of heart disease or diabetes -- African-American women are more likely to die than are white women.",Peggy Peck +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +","Oct. 29, 2007 (Los Angeles) -- Cancer is more likely to come back in the breasts of African-American women with early-stage breast cancer who undergo breast-conserving surgery than in their white counterparts, according to the largest study of its kind.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +","But the difference in recurrence rates a decade after treatment -- 17% in African-Americans vs. 13% in whites -- is so small that breast-conserving therapy is a reasonable option for both, researchers say.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +","The findings should be discussed with African-American women, but the overall news is good,"" says Anthony Zeitman, MD, a cancer specialist at Harvard Medical School who was not involved with the work.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +","""More than four in five African-American women with early-stage breast cancer will still have good results while preserving their breast,"" he tells WebMD.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +","Many African-Americans Opt for Mastectomy +For women with early-stage breast cancer, breast-conserving surgery -- a lumpectomy followed by radiation therapy to kill any remaining cancer cells -- is an accepted treatment.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +","""But many African-American women are going straight to mastectomy due to their more aggressive disease,"" researcher Meena S. Moran, MD, a radiation oncologist at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn., tells WebMD.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +","Moran and colleagues studied 2,382 women with early-stage breast cancer who underwent breast-conserving surgery; 207 of them were African-American.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +",Blacks Have More Aggressive Breast Tumors,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +","The findings also confirm recent reports that African-American women are more likely to have aggressive tumors than white women and that biology, not socioeconomic factors such as access to care, are to blame, Moran says.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +","Among the findings: +African-Americans are more likely to have tumors that are not fueled by estrogen or progesterone than white women.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +",Twenty percent of African-Americans were 40 or younger at diagnosis vs. 12% of whites.,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +",Thirty-two percent of African-American women had tumors that were greater than 2 centimeters in diameter vs. 18% of white women.,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +",African-Americans were more likely to have cancer that had spread to the lymph nodes: 32% vs. 24% of whites.,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20071029/more-return-breast-cancer-blacks +","During surgery, the tumor was equally likely to be completely taken out in African-Americans and whites.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20080319/life-quality-after-prostate-cancer +",African-American patients reported significantly less satisfaction with their prostate cancer treatment choice than did white patients.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20080319/life-quality-after-prostate-cancer +","""Perhaps African-American patients weren't counseled as effectively about what they could expect after treatment,"" he says.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20080319/life-quality-after-prostate-cancer +",Or it may be the recognized reality that African-Americans tend to have somewhat worse prostate cancer than patients of other races.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20080319/life-quality-after-prostate-cancer +","Durado Brooks, MD, MPH, director for prostate and colorectal cancers at the American Cancer Society, agrees that the study raises questions about African-American men's expectations from prostate cancer treatment.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20080319/life-quality-after-prostate-cancer +","""Beyond communication issues is the question of whether African-American men have a different level of expectations based not on education but on culture,"" Brooks suggests.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20180508/a-yellow-light-but-little-guidance-on-psa-tests +","It says prostate cancer screening tests make sense for some men between the ages of 55 and 69, including those with a higher-than-average risk because of a family history of prostate or related cancers or because they are African-American.","Brenda Goodman, MA" +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20180508/a-yellow-light-but-little-guidance-on-psa-tests +","African-Americans Face Higher Risks +Prostate cancer is more common in African-American men.","Brenda Goodman, MA" +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20180508/a-yellow-light-but-little-guidance-on-psa-tests +","For those reasons, the task force says African-American men may benefit from regular PSA testing starting at age 55, after talking with their doctors.","Brenda Goodman, MA" +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20180508/a-yellow-light-but-little-guidance-on-psa-tests +",The American Cancer Society and the American Urological Association say African American may consider screening even earlier--as young as age 45-- after consultation with their doctors.,"Brenda Goodman, MA" +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20140929/american-doctor-exposed-to-ebola-admitted-to-nih-hospital +",The unidentified patient was working at an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone when exposed to the highly lethal virus that has been ravaging four West African nations for months., +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20140929/american-doctor-exposed-to-ebola-admitted-to-nih-hospital +","Sacra received two transfusions of blood serum from Brantly, the first American to be infected with the virus during the West African outbreak.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20060809/african-hiv-drug-adherence-beats-us +","Sub-Saharan Africans with HIV are more likely to take their drugs as directed than are North Americans, according to a new study.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20060809/african-hiv-drug-adherence-beats-us +","Researchers examining 58 studies on adherence to HIV drugs found an estimated 77% of sub-Saharan Africans with HIV adhered to the recommended drug regimen, compared with 55% of North American patients.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20060809/african-hiv-drug-adherence-beats-us +","This review contradicts a historical anticipation of poor adherence by Africans to antiretroviral regimens that was offered as a rationale to delay providing these therapies,"" says researcher Edward Mills, PhD, MSc, director of the Centre for International Health and Human Rights Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, in a news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20060809/african-hiv-drug-adherence-beats-us +","If one had considered adherence simply on the basis of evidence, sub-Saharan Africans would have had access to these life-saving therapies earlier,"" says Mills.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20060809/african-hiv-drug-adherence-beats-us +","In their analysis, researchers gathered information on ART adherence from 31 studies in North America that included more than 17,000 people with HIV, and 27 sub-Saharan African studies involving more than 12,000 HIV-positive people.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20060809/african-hiv-drug-adherence-beats-us +",Seventy-one percent of the North American studies used patient self-reporting to measure adherence to anti-HIV drug regimens; 66% of the African studies used the same method., +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20150316/american-with-ebola-now-in-critical-condition +","The health providers were also working in Sierra Leone, one of three West African nations hit hard by the Ebola outbreak that began last year.", +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20150316/american-with-ebola-now-in-critical-condition +","Nearly all the victims have been in the West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20080411/heart-transplant-survival-studies-clash +",Two studies show conflicting data on survival rates for African-Americans who undergo successful heart transplant surgery.,Neil Osterweil +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20080411/heart-transplant-survival-studies-clash +","A large study involving more than 36,000 U.S. heart transplant patients over a 20-year period found that African-Americans live on average nearly three years shorter than whites and nearly two years shorter than Hispanics who get heart transplants.",Neil Osterweil +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20080411/heart-transplant-survival-studies-clash +",That study suggested that survival was similar between African-Americans and white Americans.,Neil Osterweil +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20080411/heart-transplant-survival-studies-clash +","They found that after three years of follow-up, survival rates were similar between the groups, at 74% for African-Americans and 76% for whites.",Neil Osterweil +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20080411/heart-transplant-survival-studies-clash +","Furthermore, African-Americans were less likely than white Americans to need a second hospitalization.",Neil Osterweil +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20080411/heart-transplant-survival-studies-clash +","This data suggest that ""African-Americans are not at higher risk for adverse outcomes after cardiac transplantation,"" Srivastava says.",Neil Osterweil +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20110914/african-americans-may-develop-high-blood-pressure-faster +","Sept. 14, 2011-- African-Americans may develop high blood pressure faster than whites with the same risk factors, according to a new study.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20110914/african-americans-may-develop-high-blood-pressure-faster +",Researchers found that African-Americans with prehypertension progressed to hypertension a year sooner than whites with the same condition.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20110914/african-americans-may-develop-high-blood-pressure-faster +",African-Americans with prehypertension were also more likely than whites to develop hypertension.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20110914/african-americans-may-develop-high-blood-pressure-faster +","The fact that African-Americans progress faster to hypertension has a direct link to the higher prevalence of hypertension and its complications, such as stroke and kidney disease, in blacks than whites,"" study researcher Anbesaw Selassie, DrPH, says in a news release.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20110914/african-americans-may-develop-high-blood-pressure-faster +","Previous studies have already shown that hypertension, heart disease, and stroke are more common in African-Americans than in whites.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20110914/african-americans-may-develop-high-blood-pressure-faster +",The results showed that African-Americans progressed from prehypertension to hypertension an average of a year faster than whites.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20110914/african-americans-may-develop-high-blood-pressure-faster +",The study also showed that African-Americans with prehypertension were 35% more likely than whites to develop hypertension.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20110914/african-americans-may-develop-high-blood-pressure-faster +",But researchers say the results of this study suggest more aggressive treatment of prehypertension in African-Americans is needed.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20110914/african-americans-may-develop-high-blood-pressure-faster +","""I firmly believe that without early therapeutic interventions such as medication, we cannot narrow the gap between blacks and whites on these outcomes,"" says Selassie.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20110914/african-americans-may-develop-high-blood-pressure-faster +",Experts say the study highlights the need for further study into why African-Americans are more prone to hypertension and its related complications.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20110914/african-americans-may-develop-high-blood-pressure-faster +","""Ultimately, tangible and fundamental answers must be forthcoming in order to explain why the black population develops hypertension more frequently and rapidly,"" Edward D. Frohlich, MD, of the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans, writes in an accompanying editorial.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20030505/baby-supplements-asthma-allergy-linked +","The link between vitamin supplements and allergies and asthma was strongest for formula-fed African-American children, who were almost twice as likely to develop food allergies and one-and-a-half times as likely to develop asthma if they were given vitamins during their first six months.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20030505/baby-supplements-asthma-allergy-linked +","Factors identified as increasing the risk for asthma included being male, having a smoker in the house, attending daycare, premature birth, being African-American, bottle-feeding, and low income.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20030505/baby-supplements-asthma-allergy-linked +","When all these factors were controlled for, supplements use in the first six months was linked to a higher risk of asthma in African-American babies who did not breastfeed.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20030211/vaccines-elude-minorities +","But even with equal access to healthcare providers and medical insurance, a new study shows that blacks and Hispanics are nearly half as likely as other diabetics to receive vaccines to protect them from these conditions.",Sid Kirchheimer +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20030211/vaccines-elude-minorities +","Though only 3% fewer black children are vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella than white children, nearly two in three elderly white Americans get an annual flu shot, compared with only 48% of blacks and 56% of Hispanics.",Sid Kirchheimer +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20030211/vaccines-elude-minorities +","African Americans get diabetes 1.6 times as often as white Americans, and Hispanics face twice the risk as whites.",Sid Kirchheimer +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20030211/vaccines-elude-minorities +","However, Egede found after adjusting for factors such as access to healthcare, insurance, and social economic status, both Hispanics and white Americans are being vaccinated against the flu and pneumonia nearly twice as often as African Americans.",Sid Kirchheimer +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20030211/vaccines-elude-minorities +",But this isn't the first study to show the black-and-white realities of how race and ethnicity play into the quality of healthcare.,Sid Kirchheimer +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20030211/vaccines-elude-minorities +","""I had a similar finding, indicating that African-Americans were about half as likely to receive these vaccines compared to whites or Hispanics,"" he tells WebMD.",Sid Kirchheimer +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20030211/vaccines-elude-minorities +","While I did find there was some more resistance against the vaccines among African-Americans than in whites or Hispanics, that doesn't explain the whole story.",Sid Kirchheimer +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20030211/vaccines-elude-minorities +","When Africans Americans got the vaccines, it typically was an adjunct treatment for another visit.",Sid Kirchheimer +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050922/fewer-american-women-dying-of-breast-cancer +",Survival among black women with breast cancer continues to lag well behind that of white women.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050922/fewer-american-women-dying-of-breast-cancer +","Whereas 90% of white women are alive five years after being diagnosed, that number drops to 76% among African-Americans.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/sex/news/20080311/1-in-4-teen-girls-infected-with-an-std +",The study also showed that nearly half of adolescent African-American girls are infected with an STD.,Todd Zwillich +"https://www.webmd.com/sex/news/20080311/1-in-4-teen-girls-infected-with-an-std +","This does not mean that African-Americans are taking greater risks individually,"" says John Douglas Jr., MD, director of the CDC's division of STD prevention.",Todd Zwillich +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20010205/5-per-american-each-year-could-control-aids +","Millions of Africans literally are dying for lack of AIDS drugs -- and U.S. national security depends on solving the dilemma, a leading American economist says in a keynote speech opening the 8th Annual Retrovirus Conference here.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20010205/5-per-american-each-year-could-control-aids +","I see now a clear next step where the drug companies, the U.S., and other rich nations, and African governments are willing to act.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20010205/5-per-american-each-year-could-control-aids +","""We are responding to the African disaster in a remarkably half-hearted way,"" DeCock says.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20090416/self-affirmation-boosts-some-students-gpa +",Fall-term grades improved for African-American students who participated in the self-affirmation writing exercises.,Caroline Wilbert +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20090416/self-affirmation-boosts-some-students-gpa +","The grade point average among participating African-American students was raised by an average of 0.24 points, compared to a control group that participated in neutral writing exercises about topics such as their morning routine.",Caroline Wilbert +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070731/tvs-robin-roberts-has-breast-cancer +","African-American Women and Breast Cancer +African-American women are at greater risk for having breast cancer at a younger age than women of other ethnicities, and their cancer is likely to be advanced when it is diagnosed, Moore tells WebMD.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080107/racial-gap-persists-in-cancer-care +","A racial gap persists in cancer care, with African-Americans less likely than whites to get cancer treatment through Medicare, a new study shows.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080107/racial-gap-persists-in-cancer-care +","The researchers tracked cancer treatments among African-American and white Medicare patients diagnosed with lung, breast, colorectal, or prostate cancer between 1992 and 2002.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080107/racial-gap-persists-in-cancer-care +","Throughout the study, African-Americans were less likely to get cancer treatment -- including cancersurgery, chemotherapy, and radiation -- than whites.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080107/racial-gap-persists-in-cancer-care +","For instance, African-Americans were about 15% less likely than whites to get surgery for early-stage lung cancer.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080107/racial-gap-persists-in-cancer-care +",That's a much bigger gap than the 2% difference among African-Americans and whites who underwent breast cancer chemotherapy.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/news/20181220/average-american-getting-fatter-but-not-taller +",Only Asian-Americans and black men appeared to buck this trend., +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/news/20181220/average-american-getting-fatter-but-not-taller +","White men and women, along with Mexican-Americans and black women, put on the most pounds, according to the report.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/news/20181220/average-american-getting-fatter-but-not-taller +","Black men, whose weights leveled off between 2005 and 2016, and Asian-Americans, who saw no significant differences in the four body measures over the two decades.", +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20180509/african-nation-reports-new-ebola-cases +",It's been less than a year since the last incidence of Ebola in the central African country., +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20141009/ebola-screening-to-start-saturday-at-jfk-airport-in-new-york +","By Dennis Thompson +HealthDay Reporter +THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- The heads of West African nations battered by the Ebola outbreak pleaded Thursday with world leaders for massive increases in financial and medical aid.", +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20141009/ebola-screening-to-start-saturday-at-jfk-airport-in-new-york +","The five airports receive 94 percent of the roughly 150 travelers who arrive daily in the United States from the West African nations hit hardest by the Ebola outbreak -- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a Wednesday news briefing.", +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20141009/ebola-screening-to-start-saturday-at-jfk-airport-in-new-york +",These measures will complement the exit screening procedures that have already been put in place in the affected West African countries., +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20000710/male-circumcision-as-answer-to-african-aids-epidemic +","About 25 million Africans have AIDS or are infected with the HIV virus, which causes AIDS, and many of those men with the disease live in areas of Africa where circumcision is not performed regularly.", +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20100419/ringworm-is-common-among-school-age-kids +",""" +African-American Kids Affected",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20100419/ringworm-is-common-among-school-age-kids +",African-American children were found to be at greatest risk.,Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20100419/ringworm-is-common-among-school-age-kids +","More than 18% of the youngest African-American kids evaluated, in first grade or kindergarten, were infected.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20100419/ringworm-is-common-among-school-age-kids +","By fifth grade, the African-American infection rate had dropped to 7%.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20100419/ringworm-is-common-among-school-age-kids +","Overall, infection prevalence rates for African-American kids were 12.9%, compared to 1.6% in Hispanic kids and 1.1% in white children",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20100419/ringworm-is-common-among-school-age-kids +","Researchers say the reason for the ""dramatically higher"" prevalence in African-American children was not clear.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20001030/rickets-making-comeback-in-american-kids +","Meanwhile, U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher announced Monday a campaign to get more mothers -- especially black mothers -- to breastfeed.",Peggy Peck +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20001030/rickets-making-comeback-in-american-kids +",The risk for rickets is particularly high for black children and other dark skinned children because dark pigmentation is a natural filter for the sun.,Peggy Peck +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20001030/rickets-making-comeback-in-american-kids +","In both Georgia and North Carolina, all cases were among black children.",Peggy Peck +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/news/20160803/average-american-15-pounds-heavier-than-20-years-ago +","When looked at by race, blacks gained the most on average.", +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/news/20160803/average-american-15-pounds-heavier-than-20-years-ago +",Black women added 22 pounds despite staying the same average height., +"https://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/news/20160803/average-american-15-pounds-heavier-than-20-years-ago +","Black men grew about one-fifth of an inch, but added 18 pounds, the study found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20040401/asthma-adhd-rates-high-among-american-kids +","Children in poor families were also more likely to have never been diagnosed with asthma (16%) than those in families that were not poor (11%), and non-Hispanic black children were twice as likely to have had an asthma attack in the last year when compared with Hispanic children.", +"https://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20040401/asthma-adhd-rates-high-among-american-kids +","Hispanic children were two to four times more likely to lack a usual place for health care compared with black or white children (12% vs. 5% and 3%, respectively).", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050303/blacks-get-less-aggressive-heart-attack-care +","March 3, 2005 - Blacks are still less likely than whites and Hispanics to receive aggressive treatment after a heart attack, according to a new study.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050303/blacks-get-less-aggressive-heart-attack-care +","The study showed that only five in 10 blacks compared with nearly six in 10 whites and Hispanics received a procedure known as cardiac catheterization, which allows doctors to evaluate blood flow to the heart and assess the scope of heart disease and heart artery blockage before determining the appropriate treatment.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050303/blacks-get-less-aggressive-heart-attack-care +","""Heart disease is a leading cause of illness and death in our country that disproportionately affects African-Americans,"" says researcher Alain G. Bertoni, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, in a news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050303/blacks-get-less-aggressive-heart-attack-care +","In the study, which appears in the March issue of Journal of the National Medical Association, researchers compared the rates of cardiac catheterization in about 585,000 white, 51,000 black, and 32,000 Hispanic people treated for heart attack in U.S. hospitals from 1995-2001.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050303/blacks-get-less-aggressive-heart-attack-care +","Researchers found cardiac catheterization rates were higher for whites than blacks for all years examined, while rates among Hispanics approached that of whites during the study period.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050303/blacks-get-less-aggressive-heart-attack-care +","Overall, 58% of whites received the cardiac catheterization as part of their heart attack treatment, compared with 50% of blacks and 55% of Hispanics.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20050303/blacks-get-less-aggressive-heart-attack-care +","If African-American patients are more informed, they can have improved dialogue with the medical team deciding how to care for them.", +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","Despite ""unprecedented"" progress in reducing both the incidence and death rates of colorectal cancer, the gap between African-Americans and whites is still widening, the American Cancer Society says in a new report.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","Death rates for colorectal cancer are about 45% higher in African-Americans than in whites, says the report, Colorectal Cancer Facts & Figures 2008-2010, the second edition of a study issued in 2005.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","Progress in early diagnosis can be attributed to greater efforts to spread the word in the African-American community that the disease can be detected early and cured, Durado Brooks, MD, director of prostate and colorectal cancer for the American Cancer Society, tells WebMD.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","""Screening rates among African-Americans lag significantly behind whites,"" says Brooks.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","The ACS has advertising focused on the African-American community,"" Brooks tells WebMD. ''",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","We have partnered with the National Medical Association, the largest African-American physicians' group, to actively promote discussion of this on the front lines.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","Although incidence and mortality rates continue to decrease in both blacks and whites, the rates are still higher and declines have been slower among blacks, the study shows.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","What's more, differences in incidence and mortality between African-Americans and whites have grown since the last report was published.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","In that report, the incidence rate in white men was 63.1 per 100,000, compared to 72.9 in African-American men.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","In the current report, the incidence rate in white men is 58.9 per 100,000, versus 71.2 among African-American men.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","Colorectal cancer incidence rates are more than 20% higher for African-Americans than whites, and death rates 45% higher.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","""Something to keep in mind is that African-Americans have been hearing for years they have highest rates for cancers, bad this, bad that,"" Brooks says.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +",It's important to make the point that African-American colorectal cancer and incidence rates and death rates are falling and have been falling for over a decade.,Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +","It's likely, Brooks adds, that the disparity between blacks and whites can be attributed to screening patterns and cultural differences in attitudes.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20081212/fighting-colorectal-cancer-blacks +",We need to get African-Americans screened early at rates at least as high as their white counterparts.,Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050124/are-genes-key-to-high-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","Small genetic differences may be the root of high blood pressure risk in African-Americans, new research shows.",Jeanie Lerche Davis +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050124/are-genes-key-to-high-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","While blacks have long been known to have higher tendency toward high blood pressure, getting to the crux of the problem has been difficult.",Jeanie Lerche Davis +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050124/are-genes-key-to-high-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","In recent years, researchers have identified a set of 269 genetic markers or sequences that are shared by people of African and European ancestry.",Jeanie Lerche Davis +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050124/are-genes-key-to-high-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","Most African-Americans have a racially mixed background, say the researchers, with some European ancestry.",Jeanie Lerche Davis +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050124/are-genes-key-to-high-blood-pressure-in-blacks +",Researchers used genetic analysis from a set of unrelated Nigerian individuals to represent African ancestral population and they used the European Americans in the family blood pressure program to provide genetics of European ancestry.,Jeanie Lerche Davis +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050124/are-genes-key-to-high-blood-pressure-in-blacks +",The study also looked at genetics from African-American families.,Jeanie Lerche Davis +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050124/are-genes-key-to-high-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","Through sophisticated genetic analysis, researchers identified two ""signposts"" for high blood pressure on a stretch of DNA - on chromosomes 6 and 21 -- among people of African descent, reports Risch.",Jeanie Lerche Davis +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050124/are-genes-key-to-high-blood-pressure-in-blacks +",The researchers conclude that the results indicate that these chromosomes may contain genes that influence the risk of high blood pressure in African-Americans.,Jeanie Lerche Davis +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20050124/are-genes-key-to-high-blood-pressure-in-blacks +","Nevertheless, it's a first step toward understanding African-Americans' high blood pressure risk, Risch says.",Jeanie Lerche Davis +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","Mar. 11, 2005 -- Genetics may be why U.S. black women tend to get more advanced breast cancer.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","Even though black women get breast cancer less often, when they do, it's often more advanced than in white women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","Now, researchers have found similarities in breast cancer between African women and U.S. black women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","This, they say, points to a possible genetic cause for more advanced breast cancers among black American women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","The researchers noticed several parallels between breast cancer patients in Africa and black women with breast cancer in the U.S. +Both groups tend to get breast cancer at younger ages than white women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +",Black women with breast cancer in the U.S. and Africa also die more often from the disease than white women.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +",Millions of Africans were removed from their homes and enslaved in the U.S. centuries ago.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +",They searched for African breast cancer studies reported in English from 1988 to 2004.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +",All studies focused on women from sub-Saharan Africa because of their shared ancestry with black U.S. women.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","First, black women in the U.S. and Africa had several things in common.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","Second, breast cancer is poised to rise in Africa, as more Africans adopt Western lifestyles.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","In America, more black women than whites are diagnosed with breast cancer before age 45.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","On average, black women are diagnosed at 57, compared to 63 for white women, says the study.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","The same is true for black women in the U.S. ""African-American women have a lower lifetime risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer, accounting for approximately 8% of all estimated new cases in the USA,"" write the researchers.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +",""" +African and black American women also tend to have more advanced breast cancers that aren't estrogen sensitive.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","Those similarities may indicate common genetic features shared by black women on both continents, the study suggests.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +","For instance, African women tend to start menstruation later, have more babies at younger ages, and breast feed longer -- all of which are associated with less breast cancer.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20050314/genes-key-to-advanced-breast-cancer-in-blacks +",Breast cancer is likely to rise as more Africans take on Western lifestyles.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20120522/smoking-gene-may-reveal-why-some-people-smoke-more +","Researchers from 50 medical institutions across the country analyzed genetic material of more than 32,000 African-American smokers and non-smokers to see if certain genes predicted when they began smoking, how many cigarettes they smoked, and how easily they were able to quit.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20120522/smoking-gene-may-reveal-why-some-people-smoke-more +","Among African-Americans, the new genetic marker appears on a different spot on the same gene.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20120522/smoking-gene-may-reveal-why-some-people-smoke-more +","For example, African-Americans typically start smoking at later ages than their counterparts of European descent and smoke fewer cigarettes each day.",Denise Mann +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070925/us-breast-cancer-death-rate-drops +","The ACS reports that breast cancer deaths dropped 2.4% per year from 1990 to 2004 in white and Hispanic women, compared with 1.6% annually in African-American women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20070925/us-breast-cancer-death-rate-drops +","Unfortunately, not all women are benefiting at the same level,"" says Eyre, noting that by 2004, breast cancer death rates were 36% higher in African-American women than in white women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20180907/blacks-rate-of-blood-pressure-crises-5x-higher +","A sudden, severe surge in blood pressure is known as a hypertensive crisis, and new research suggests that black people are far more likely to experience this potentially deadly condition.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20180907/blacks-rate-of-blood-pressure-crises-5x-higher +","High blood pressure ""is an unnecessary scourge on African Americans.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20180907/blacks-rate-of-blood-pressure-crises-5x-higher +","The prevalence of hypertensive crisis is five times higher in African Americans than in the general population,"" said study author Dr. Frederick Waldron.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20180907/blacks-rate-of-blood-pressure-crises-5x-higher +",Almost 90 percent of those in hypertensive crisis were black., +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20180907/blacks-rate-of-blood-pressure-crises-5x-higher +","""We couldn't determine the rate of adherence to medications in our studies, but in previous studies, medication compliance in African Americans is less than 40 percent,"" Waldron said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +",A new report from the American Cancer Society brings good news and bad news for black Americans., +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","The number of black lives lost to cancer is falling, the report finds, and at a faster rate than observed among whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","That's helping to close a decades-long ""race gap"" in cancer deaths between blacks and whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","""Seeing the substantial progress made over the past several decades in reducing black-white disparities in cancer mortality is incredibly gratifying,"" said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, interim chief medical officer at the ACS.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","However, even with that improvement, blacks still have the highest cancer death rate of any racial/ethnic group in the United States.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","In 2019, about 202,260 new cancer cases and 73,030 cancer deaths are expected to occur among black Americans.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","In that year, black men had a 47 percent higher risk of dying of cancer compared to white men, and black women had a 19 percent higher risk of such deaths compared to white women.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","In these groups, the black-white disparity in cancer deaths has nearly been eliminated, the ACS team said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","They found that the black-white disparity in cancer deaths has narrowed for lung, prostate and colon cancers, and has stabilized since 2010 for breast cancer.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","While we continue to observe higher-grade prostate cancer in African-American men, my anecdotal evidence suggests that we are seeing more screen-detected cancers, at early stages,"" said Dr. Manish Vira.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +",The ACS report found an especially dramatic narrowing of black-white disparities in cancer deaths for certain age groups., +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","For example, among men ages 40 to 49, the cancer death rate was 102 percent higher in blacks than in whites in 1990-1991, but just 17 percent higher in 2015-2016.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","Among women ages 40 to 49, the overall cancer death disparity between blacks and whites narrowed from 44 percent in 1990-1991 to 30 percent in 2015-2016.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","The report also said that between 2006 and 2015, the overall cancer rate fell faster among black men (2.4 percent per year) than among white men (1.7 percent per year), largely due to larger declines in lung cancer among black men.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","""Progress [against cancer] is driven in large part by drops in the lung cancer death rate driven by more rapid decreases in smoking over the past 40 years in blacks than in whites,"" he said in an ACS news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +",Colon cancer is expected to be the third-leading cause of cancer death for black men and women., +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","According to the ACS, cancer death rates peaked in black men and women in the early 1990s and have since declined, with a larger decrease in men, translating into more than 462,000 cancer deaths prevented over the past 25 years.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","There was little change in the incidence of cancer among black women, but incidence increased slightly among white women.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +","Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in black men, and breast cancer is the most common cancer in black women, each accounting for nearly one-third of cancers diagnosed in each sex, the report found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20190214/blacks-gain-still-have-highest-cancer-death-rate-in-us +",Lung and colon cancers are the second and third most common cancers in both black men and women., +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20190102/doctor-monitored-for-ebola-in-nebraska-hospital +",That African country is in the middle of an Ebola outbreak that has left more than 300 dead., +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20120605/racial-gap-in-life-expectancy-shrinking +",The life expectancy gap between African-Americans and whites in the U.S. has hit an all-time low.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20120605/racial-gap-in-life-expectancy-shrinking +",The results showed the difference in life expectancy at birth between whites and African-Americans decreased from 6.5 to 5.4 years among men and 4.6 to 3.7 years among women.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20120605/racial-gap-in-life-expectancy-shrinking +","""Understanding the causes of black-white differences in mortality has important consequences for interventions to reduce health inequalities,"" they write.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20120605/racial-gap-in-life-expectancy-shrinking +",African-Americans in the U.S. have traditionally had significantly lower life expectancy rates compared with their white counterparts.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20120605/racial-gap-in-life-expectancy-shrinking +","The results showed the average life expectancy at birth increased for both non-Hispanic white and African-American men, from 75.3 to 76.2 years and 68.8 to 70.8 years, respectively.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20120605/racial-gap-in-life-expectancy-shrinking +",Life expectancy rates increased from 80.3 to 81.2 years for non-Hispanic white women and 75.7 to 77.5 years for African-American women.,Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20120605/racial-gap-in-life-expectancy-shrinking +","However, in contrast to 1993-2003, homicide has not played an important role in reducing black-white differences among men since 2003,"" write the researchers.",Jennifer Warner +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +","March 10, 2003 -- Blacks are more than three times as likely to die of complications from high blood pressure and merit more aggressive treatment, according to a new report.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +","Researchers say current treatment strategies have failed African Americans, and for the first time new treatment guidelines have been developed especially for them.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +","The guidelines, published in the March 10 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, were developed by the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB) and have been endorsed by the American Heart Association and other groups.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +","Researchers say one in three African Americans has high blood pressure, and they tend to develop the condition earlier in life as well as have more severe forms of the disease.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +","On average, one African American dies from high blood pressure every hour, yet barely a quarter of hypertensive African Americans has the disease under control,"" says John Flack, MD, president of ISHIB, in a news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +",Flack says these new recommendations were created to give healthcare providers the tools to manage high blood pressure appropriately in blacks and save lives., +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +",The guidelines urge doctors to aggressively treat African American patients with high blood pressure as well as other risk factors and lower their blood pressure from the normally recommended 140/90 mm Hg to 130/80, +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +","Researchers say nearly 40% of blacks suffer from heart disease, 13% have diabetes, and 32% of all people on dialysis due to kidney failure are black.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +","The recommendations also call for starting many African Americans on a combination of at least two types of blood pressure-lowering medications, such as ACE inhibitors and calcium-channel blockers.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +","Researchers say African Americans with diabetes should also receive medications proven to slow the progression of kidney disease, including angiotensin II-receptor blockers and ACE inhibitors as a part of their blood pressure treatment.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +","They urge healthcare providers to encourage black patients to exercise regularly, moderate their alcohol intake, and avoid tobacco.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20030310/new-blood-pressure-guidelines-for-blacks +","News release, International Society on Hypertension in Blacks.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20130326/is-early-baldness-in-blacks-a-clue-to-prostate-cancer +","Black men with early hair loss may have a heightened risk of developing prostate cancer, researchers report.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20130326/is-early-baldness-in-blacks-a-clue-to-prostate-cancer +","This study of more than 500 black men found that those ""who have baldness by age 30 are more likely to develop prostate cancer,"" said researcher Charnita Zeigler-Johnson, a research assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, in Philadelphia.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20130326/is-early-baldness-in-blacks-a-clue-to-prostate-cancer +","The new research is believed to be the first to focus only on blacks, Zeigler-Johnson said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20130326/is-early-baldness-in-blacks-a-clue-to-prostate-cancer +",Blacks in the United States get prostate cancer more often than other men and are more than twice as likely to die of the disease., +"https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/news/20130326/is-early-baldness-in-blacks-a-clue-to-prostate-cancer +","Another expert, Dr. Lionel Banez, a research investigator at Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Durham, N.C., said the new findings are important ""because this is the largest cohort of purely African-American men published which examines the link between baldness and prostate cancer.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20070612/heart-attack-treatment-differs-by-race +","June 12, 2007 - After heart attacks, African-Americans get less open-heart surgery and fewer artery-unblocking procedures -- and are more likely to die -- than whites.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20070612/heart-attack-treatment-differs-by-race +",Yet studies consistently find that African-American heart attack patients are significantly less likely to get these procedures than are white heart attack patients.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20070612/heart-attack-treatment-differs-by-race +","Popescu and colleagues found that compared with white patients: +When treated at hospitals that provide angioplasty and bypass surgery, African-American heart attack patients receive these services less often (34% vs. 50%).",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20070612/heart-attack-treatment-differs-by-race +","When treated at hospitals that do not provide these specialized heart services, African-American heart attack patients are less likely to be transferred to a hospital that does provide them (25% vs. 31%).",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20070612/heart-attack-treatment-differs-by-race +","Even after transfer to a hospital that provided them, African-American patients were less likely to receive these services,"" Popescu says.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20070612/heart-attack-treatment-differs-by-race +",While African-American heart attack patients are less likely to die in the month after their heart attack -- possibly due to the short-term risk posed by the procedures -- they are more likely to die within a year of their heart attack (37% vs. 33%).,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20120216/african-mango-supplements +",La Internet ha estado hablando mucho sobre el uso del suplemento de mango africano para la pérdida de peso.,"Kathleen M. Zelman, MPH, RD, LD" +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20120216/african-mango-supplements +",", que produce un fruto similar a un mango y ha sido apodado ""mango africano"", mango salvaje, nuez dika o mango de arbusto.","Kathleen M. Zelman, MPH, RD, LD" +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20120216/african-mango-supplements +",Consulte a su proveedor de atención médica antes de tomar suplementos de mango africano,"Kathleen M. Zelman, MPH, RD, LD" +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20110301/hearing-loss-is-high-but-hearing-aid-use-is-low +","But while 64% of white people in the study had hearing loss, the rate for African-Americans was only about 43%.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20110301/hearing-loss-is-high-but-hearing-aid-use-is-low +","After taking age, noise exposure, and other factors associated with hearing loss into account, the researchers say African-American participants had only about a third of the chance of having hearing loss compared with whites of comparable age.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20110301/hearing-loss-is-high-but-hearing-aid-use-is-low +","Hearing Loss Risk +Study researcher Frank Lin, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of otology, says in a news release that he and his colleagues are not sure why older white people may be at greater risk of hearing loss than older African-Americans.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20110301/hearing-loss-is-high-but-hearing-aid-use-is-low +","But whatever the reasons, being African-American appears to offer some protection against hearing loss, he says.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20090527/more-than-650000-cancer-deaths-avoided +","And there were racial and ethnic gaps, including these patterns: +New cancer diagnoses and cancer deaths were more common from 2001 to 2005 among African-Americans than among whites, except for breast cancer (more new cases among whites), lung cancer (more new cases and more deaths among white women than African-American women), and kidney cancer (more deaths among whites).",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","More than one in five African-Americans and one in three Hispanic Americans prefer a doctor of the same race or ethnicity, a new study shows.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","For African-Americans, this preference is strongly linked to believing that racism is inherent in the U.S. health care system.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +",And African-Americans who prefer black doctors are more likely to rate their doctor as excellent than those who want a black doctor but don't have one.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","Yet Chen and colleagues find that for two-thirds of black Americans and about half of Hispanic Americans, the race/ethnicity of the doctor doesn't matter.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","""One of the things that is very important for African-American citizens to know is that despite disparities, most health care is equitable,"" she says.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","If 70% of blacks and 80% of whites get proper care, true, blacks tend to get worse care -- but most still get good care.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","The survey was based on telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of about 1,500 white Americans, about 1,200 black Americans, and about 1,000 Hispanic Americans.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","They found that 22% of blacks, 34% of Hispanics, and 13% of whites preferred a same race/ethnicity primary care provider.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","But 65% of blacks, 47% of Hispanics, and 76% of whites didn't care.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","And even though only 27% of blacks and 35% of Hispanics had a doctor of the same race or ethnicity, about half of each group and half of white patients rated their doctors as excellent.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","Even so, black patients who preferred a black doctor and who actually had one were three times more likely to rate their doctor as excellent than those who wanted a black doctor but didn't have one.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +",Blacks and Hispanics who saw this most strongly were more likely to prefer a same-race/ethnicity doctor.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","And another problem is right now, blacks are a minority of doctors.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20050329/do-patients-prefer-doctors-of-same-race +","And for black patients always seeing one, even if we had an equivalent ratio of black doctors to the black population, it is not going to work out.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +","Genetics may help explain why prostate and breast cancers are more deadly in African-Americans than in whites, researchers say.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +","African-American men are more likely to develop prostate cancer than white men, and over two times more likely to die from the disease, according to the American Cancer Society.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +","To determine what role genetics plays, Wallace and colleagues compared prostate tumors that had been removed from 33 African-Americans and 36 white men.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +",Wallace says that genes that suppress the immune system were more likely to be overactive in African-American men.,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +","Other genes that were overexpressed in African-Americans are involved in the production of interferon, a substance that helps combat infection with viruses.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +","That finding raises the intriguing possibility that African-American men are being infected with an unidentified prostate-cancer-causing virus, Wallace says.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +","Genes Play Role in Deadly Breast Tumors +Genetic differences may also help explain a well-known paradox in cancer care: African-American women have a lower risk of developing breast cancer than whites but a higher risk of dying from it.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +","African-American women are 36% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, according to the American Cancer Society.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +","African-American women are more likely to develop large and aggressive tumors that are notoriously difficult to treat, says Lori Field, PhD, of the Windber Research Institute in Windber,",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +","Pa. +Field and colleagues examined breast tumor samples from 26 African-Americans and 26 whites.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +","Twenty-eight of the genes, many of which are involved in cell division, growth, and spread, were overactive in African-American women.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080416/genes-a-culprit-in-cancer-racial-gap +",The other 37 genes were underactive in the African-Americans.,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20070924/why-diabetes-is-worse-for-minorities +","Sept. 24, 2007 -- Why is diabetes worse for African-Americans and Latinos than it is for white Americans?",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20070924/why-diabetes-is-worse-for-minorities +","University of Michigan researcher Michele Heisler, MD, MPA, and colleagues sent detailed questionnaires -- and home blood-sugar-control test kits -- to 1,901 African-American, Latino, and white diabetes patients aged 55 or older.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20070924/why-diabetes-is-worse-for-minorities +",The blood tests confirmed what previous studies have shown: average hemoglobin A1cvalues(a measure of blood sugar control in diabetes) are much higher for African-American and Latino patients than for white patients.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20070924/why-diabetes-is-worse-for-minorities +",African-American patients are less likely than white patients to take diabetes medications as prescribed.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20070924/why-diabetes-is-worse-for-minorities +","Socioeconomic, clinical, health care, and self-management issues account for 14% of the difference in blood-sugar control between African-Americans and white Americans.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/news/20070924/why-diabetes-is-worse-for-minorities +",We need to tailor specific interventions to address the barriers to achieving good diabetes control that African American and Latino adults with diabetes disproportionately face.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20080626/troubling-trend-in-hiv-aids-diagnoses +",And the increase was higher -- 15% per year -- for African-American men aged 13-24who,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +",The first national snapshot of the racial gap in stroke rates shows that African-Americans are more likely to suffer from the debilitating condition than whites.,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","The study of over 26,000 people aged 45 and older from across the U.S. may help to explain why African-Americans are more likely to die from stroke than whites, says researcherVirginia J. Howard, PhD, associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Alabama School of Public Health in Birmingham.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","It has long known that blacks die at a higher rate from stroke than whites, but there has been little data explaining why.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","The analysis suggests that the higher rate of stroke in the African-American population may be one of the reasons,"" Howard says.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +",About 40% were African-American and the rest were white.,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","There were higher rates of strokes in blacks in almost every age group, especially among those aged 45 to 54.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","The study, presented here at a meeting of the American Stroke Association (ASA), showed that: +Among people aged 45 to 54, there were 192 strokes per 100,000 African-Americans vs. 74 strokes per 100,000 whites.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","Among people aged 55 to 64, there were 387 strokes per 100,000 African-Americans vs. 204 strokes per 100,000 whites.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","Among people aged 65 to 74, there were 713 strokes per 100,000 African-Americans vs. 439 strokes per 100,000 whites.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","Among people aged 75 to 84, there were 1,095 strokes per 100,000 African-Americans vs. 925 strokes per 100,000 whites.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +",African-Americans aged 85 and older were the only ones exempt from the trend.,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","In this age group, there were 835 strokes per 100,000 African-Americans vs. 1,131 strokes per 100,000 whites.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","Stroke Death Patterns +Deaths from stroke follow the same pattern, with blacks consistently more likely to have a fatal stroke than whites until the age of 85, Howard says.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","""Blacks also have less access to care, particularly preventive care.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","""African-Americans are less likely to have regular follow-up exams for management of risk factors.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20100301/us-has-racial-gap-in-stroke-rate +","We know that African Americans have more diabetes and high blood pressure,"" both of which are major stroke risk factors, Howard adds.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/hypertension-high-blood-pressure/news/20100624/90-percent-in-us-get-too-much-salt-5-foods-blamed +","The rest -- 70% of the population -- are middle aged, elderly, or African-American.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/osteoporosis/news/20080507/new-guidelines-for-osteoporosis-in-men +","The American College of Physicians reports that the prevalence of osteoporosis is estimated to be 7% of white men, 5% of African-American men, and 3% of Hispanic men in the U.S.",Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20071114/race-may-affect-alzheimers-survival +","Race may be an independent predictor of survival among people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, with Latinos and blacks living longer than whites.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20071114/race-may-affect-alzheimers-survival +","The findings from a study involving nearly 31,000 patients treated at more than 30 Alzheimer's centers across the country revealed that, compared with whites, Latinos were 40% and African-Americans were 15% less likely to die during the study period.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20071114/race-may-affect-alzheimers-survival +","Four out of five (81%) of the study participants were white, 12% were African-American, 4% were Latino, 1.5% were Asian, and 0.5% were American Indian.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20071114/race-may-affect-alzheimers-survival +","But while Asians and American Indians lived about as long as whites with Alzheimer's disease, Latinos and African-Americans lived significantly longer.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20071114/race-may-affect-alzheimers-survival +",Whites are more likely to be treated at Alzheimer's centers than blacks and Latinos.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20071114/race-may-affect-alzheimers-survival +",But one encouraging message from this research is that blacks and Latinos do not seem to be at a disadvantage when it comes to Alzheimer's disease outcomes.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20150626/new-rapid-ebola-test-shows-promise-in-african-clinics +","In the West African countries hardest hit by Ebola -- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- more than 11,000 people have died from the virus since late 2013.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20011018/test-your-breast-cancer-iq +","White +African-American +Hispanic +Asian +CONTINUE", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20011018/test-your-breast-cancer-iq +","White +White women are slightly more likely to develop breast cancer than are African-American women.", +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20011018/test-your-breast-cancer-iq +",But African-Americans are more likely to die of this cancer because they are often diagnosed at an advanced stage when breast cancer is harder to treat and cure., +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20011018/test-your-breast-cancer-iq +","Asian, Hispanic, and American-Indian women have a lower risk of developing breast cancer than white and African-American women, but they still need to be screened.", +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20180510/more-young-adults-getting-dying-from-colon-cancer +",Heather Blackburn-Beel was 34 years old when the pain in her belly started.,Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20180510/more-young-adults-getting-dying-from-colon-cancer +","But her mother, Kaye Blackburn, wasn’t convinced.",Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20180510/more-young-adults-getting-dying-from-colon-cancer +",Heather Blackburn-Beel was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 34.,Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20180510/more-young-adults-getting-dying-from-colon-cancer +",The American College of Gastroenterology had already said that African-Americans should start routine screening at 45 because they have higher odds of getting colorectal cancer than whites.,Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20180510/more-young-adults-getting-dying-from-colon-cancer +",Heather Blackburn-Beel’s family is one of many who didn’t know Lynch syndrome ran in their family until Heather’s doctor recommended genetic testing and found she had it.,Jennifer Clopton +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20180510/more-young-adults-getting-dying-from-colon-cancer +","I kind of blame some of the doctors who put Heather off, probably for a good 6 months to a year,” says Kaye Blackburn, now 66 years old.",Jennifer Clopton +"https://teens.webmd.com/news/20120503/cdc-fewer-teens-are-having-sex +","More girls in the U.S. are remaining virgins until their late teens and into their 20s, with the biggest rates of decline in sexual activity seen among African-Americans and Hispanics, the CDC says.",Salynn Boyles +"https://teens.webmd.com/news/20120503/cdc-fewer-teens-are-having-sex +","For the first time since the CDC began gathering data on teen sex practices, the percentage of teen girls who reported having never had sex was the roughly the same for African-Americans, whites, and Hispanics.",Salynn Boyles +"https://teens.webmd.com/news/20120503/cdc-fewer-teens-are-having-sex +","In the latest survey, 2 out of 3 (66%) sexually active white teens said they used highly effective birth control, compared to 46% of African-American teens and 54% of Hispanic teens.",Salynn Boyles +"https://teens.webmd.com/news/20120503/cdc-fewer-teens-are-having-sex +","Between the first and most recent surveys, the percentage of teen girls who reported never having had sex increased by 34% among African-Americans, 29% among Hispanics, and 15% among whites.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20070307/meditation-may-benefit-heart-patients +",The small pilot study included 23 recently hospitalized black patients.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20070307/meditation-may-benefit-heart-patients +",But it is the first study to look specifically at stress reduction through meditation in African-American patients with congestive heart failure.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/heart-failure/news/20070307/meditation-may-benefit-heart-patients +",Jayadevappa says the pilot study included only blacks because they are more likely than whites to develop heart failure and die from the disease.,Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20030214/stroke-deaths-expected-to-double-by-2032 +",Men and African-Americans are also expected to suffer disproportionately from stroke deaths in the future., +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100503/teens-south-getting-too-little-vitamin-d +","Vitamin D and Teens +Researchers measured vitamin D levels in 559 African-American and white adolescents between 14 and 18 in Augusta, Ga., which gets plenty of sunlight year-round.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100503/teens-south-getting-too-little-vitamin-d +","Of the 559 participants, 49% were female, 51% male, 45% African-American, and 55% white.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100503/teens-south-getting-too-little-vitamin-d +","But African-American teenagers had significantly lower vitamin D levels in every season of the year, compared to white teens.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100503/teens-south-getting-too-little-vitamin-d +",Vitamin D Deficiency Higher in African-Americans,Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100503/teens-south-getting-too-little-vitamin-d +","Overall, the researchers write, vitamin D levels were higher in white children than in African-American teens, and higher in boys than girls.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100503/teens-south-getting-too-little-vitamin-d +","Researchers report that: +Vitamin D insufficiency rates were 94.3% in African-American girls and 83.1% in African-American boys, compared with 29.6% in white girls and 30.3% in white boys.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100503/teens-south-getting-too-little-vitamin-d +","Vitamin D deficiency rates were 73.8% in African-American girls and 46.9% in African-American boys, compared with only 2.6% in white girls and 3.9% in white boys.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100503/teens-south-getting-too-little-vitamin-d +","Severe vitamin D deficiency was found only in African-American adolescents, or 5.2%.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100503/teens-south-getting-too-little-vitamin-d +","In summer, no white kids had vitamin D deficiency, but 55% of African-American youths did.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100503/teens-south-getting-too-little-vitamin-d +",Researchers say their study is one of the first to investigate vitamin D status in children in the southern part of the U.S. in African-Americans as well as whites.,Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100503/teens-south-getting-too-little-vitamin-d +","""One of the key findings in our study is that a substantial proportion of black adolescents may be at risk for low vitamin D status not only in winter but throughout the year,"" the researchers write.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20051024/clogged-leg-arteries-more-common-in-blacks +","Blacks are more than twice as likely as whites to have clogged leg arteries, and no one knows why, researchers report.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20051024/clogged-leg-arteries-more-common-in-blacks +","For reasons that are still unclear, something related to African American ethnicity raises the risk of PAD,"" says researcher Michael Criqui, MD, MPH, in a news release.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20051024/clogged-leg-arteries-more-common-in-blacks +","This research says that physicians need to be particularly alert to the possibility of PAD in their African American patients,"" Criqui says.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20051024/clogged-leg-arteries-more-common-in-blacks +","Participants were white, black, Hispanic, or Asian.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20051024/clogged-leg-arteries-more-common-in-blacks +","PAD in African-Americans +PAD was found in 104 participants (about 4%) and was most common in blacks, men, and older participants.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20051024/clogged-leg-arteries-more-common-in-blacks +","PAD was found in: +Nearly 8% of blacks (25 out of 322 blacks) +About 5% of non-Hispanic whites (69 out of 1,401 whites) +Less than 2% of Hispanics (six out of 341 Hispanics) +Less than 2% of Asians (four out of 279 Asians) +Taking other information about medical history into consideration, the researchers calculated that blacks were 2.3 times as likely as whites to have PAD.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20051024/clogged-leg-arteries-more-common-in-blacks +","Blacks were as likely to have PAD as someone from another ethnic group who was 10 years older or who had smoked for 20 years, says Criqui.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20051024/clogged-leg-arteries-more-common-in-blacks +","Reasons Unclear +Blacks were also more likely to have diabetes, high blood pressure, and greater BMIs.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20051024/clogged-leg-arteries-more-common-in-blacks +","""It had been presumed that the excess of PAD in African Americans was due to a greater proportion of African Americans having diabetes and hypertension,"" says Criqui.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20051024/clogged-leg-arteries-more-common-in-blacks +",More whites than blacks in the study were smokers.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20110301/obesity-boosts-risk-for-aggressive-breast-cancer +","African-Americans, Younger Women Have Higher Risk +Triple-negative breast cancers are common among women who have a genetic predisposition known as BRCA1, and they also occur more often in African-American women and tend to occur in younger women.",Salynn Boyles +"https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20180530/new-guidelines-say-screen-for-colon-cancer-at-45 +","The American College of Gastroenterology already recommends that black people begin at age 45, due to their relatively higher risk.", +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20190107/does-race-affect-how-alzheimers-is-diagnosed +","Alzheimer's disease may be twice as common in black Americans as in whites, and scientists don't really know why.", +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20190107/does-race-affect-how-alzheimers-is-diagnosed +",The study found that black people typically have lower levels of the brain protein tau., +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20190107/does-race-affect-how-alzheimers-is-diagnosed +","And because rising levels of tau are considered a sign of Alzheimer's, blacks may not meet the same threshold as whites for when Alzheimer's starts.", +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20190107/does-race-affect-how-alzheimers-is-diagnosed +","For the study, Morris and his colleagues analyzed data from more than 1,200 people, of whom 14 percent (173) were black.", +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20190107/does-race-affect-how-alzheimers-is-diagnosed +","MRI and PET scans found no significant differences between black patients and white patients, but spinal fluid revealed lower levels of tau among black people, the researchers said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20190107/does-race-affect-how-alzheimers-is-diagnosed +","Elevated tau has been linked to brain damage, memory loss and confusion, but having lower levels of tau didn't protect black patients from those problems, the investigators found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20190107/does-race-affect-how-alzheimers-is-diagnosed +","With tau, the pattern was the same in African-Americans and whites --", +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20190107/does-race-affect-how-alzheimers-is-diagnosed +","the higher your tau level, the more likely you were cognitively impaired -- but the absolute amounts were consistently lower in African-Americans,"" Morris said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20190107/does-race-affect-how-alzheimers-is-diagnosed +",Earlier studies found that this mutation had a weaker effect in black people., +"https://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20190107/does-race-affect-how-alzheimers-is-diagnosed +","It looks like the APOE4 risk factor doesn't operate the same in African-Americans as it does in whites,"" Morris said in a university news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20110201/complementary-and-alternative-medicine-on-the-rise +",What surprised Su was the “expanding gap” in the rate of CAM use between non-Hispanic whites and African-American and Hispanic populations.,Matt McMillen +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20110201/complementary-and-alternative-medicine-on-the-rise +",Whites were more than twice as likely to see a CAM provider as African-Americans or Hispanics.,Matt McMillen +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080220/us-cancer-deaths-up-in-2005 +","Racial Gaps in Cancer +Cancer continues to take a heavier toll on African-Americans than whites, the report shows.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080220/us-cancer-deaths-up-in-2005 +","""African Americans are more likely to develop and die from cancer than any other racial or ethnic group,"" states the report.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20080220/us-cancer-deaths-up-in-2005 +","The death rate for cancer among African American males is about 37% higher than among white males; for African American females, it is about 17% higher.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20080807/men-adopt-twice-as-often-as-women +","Indeed, black Americans are proportionately more likely to adopt than are white Americans.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20080807/men-adopt-twice-as-often-as-women +","Among white adoption seekers, 84% would accept a black child and 95% would accept a child of a race neither black nor white.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20080807/men-adopt-twice-as-often-as-women +","Among black adoption seekers, 75% would accept a white child and 93% would accept a child of a race neither black nor white.",Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","Although cancer death rates are improving, blacks in the U.S. still shoulder a disproportionate share of the country's cancer burden.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +",Blacks in America have the nation's highest death rate for all cancers combined and for most major cancers.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","The news comes from the American Cancer Society's report, ""Cancer Facts & Figures for African Americans 2005-2006.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","Released on the first day of Black History Month, the study highlights a long-running cancer gap between blacks and whites.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","For years, the death rate for all major causes of death has been higher in blacks than in whites, contributing to the lower life expectancy in black men and women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","In blacks, the incidence of all cancers combined increased from 1970 to 1990, with rates increasing faster in men than in women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","After 1990, the rates decreased in black men and remained stable in black women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +",Cancer has killed a greater proportion of blacks than whites.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","The gap is narrowing, but blacks still lag behind whites almost across the board with regard to cancer.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","After increasing from 1975 to 1993, the death rate among blacks from all cancers combined declined by an average of 1.6% per year from 1993-2001 -- a decline that was larger in men than in women.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","According to the report, a substantial racial gap still exists in the death rates from colorectal cancer between blacks and whites.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","Nearly 138,000 new cancer cases -- almost 1 in 10 -- will occur among blacks in 2005, and about 63,000 blacks will die of cancer this year, predicts the ACS.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +",Black men have a 20% higher rate of cancers and a 40% higher rate of death from all cancers combined compared with white men.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","Yet blacks make up about 13% of the U.S. population based on U.S. census figures, says the study.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","Most Common Cancers for Blacks +Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer for black men, accounting for nearly 42% of their cancers.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","For black women, breast cancer is the most common (30% of cases).",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +",Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for black men and women.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +",It's responsible for 28% of cancer deaths in black men and 21% in black women.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","The No. 2 cause of cancer death for black men is prostate cancer (16%); for women, it's breast cancer (18%).",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","Black-White Gap +Run down the list of major cancers, and blacks fare worse than whites in virtually every regard.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","For black women, it was 75%.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","Lung cancer: During 1997-2001, on average the rate for lung cancer was 47% higher among black men than white men.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +",The five-year survival rate is slightly lower in blacks than in whites -- 13% vs. 15% respectively.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +",Prostate cancer: The death rate is 2.4 times greater for black men than white men.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +",More common for blacks than whites.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +",Less improvement in death rates for blacks since 1990.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +",More blacks are surviving cancer than before.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","In the early 1960s, only 27% of blacks lived five years after being diagnosed.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","But in general, blacks are still less likely to survive five years after a cancer diagnosis than whites for all cancer sites, says the report.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","Compared with whites, a higher proportion of blacks are diagnosed with advanced stages of cancer, which are often harder to treat.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20050201/blacks-fare-worse-cancer +","Recognizing the black population's diversity, the ACS knows every person has a unique profile.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +",run across the finish line will be Kenyan -- or at least African.,Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +","The fact that Africans dominate long-distance running is widely known, but why they dominate is not so clear.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +","In a study published in the June issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Adele Weston, PhD, and colleagues offer some suggestions as to what may account for the many excellent African runners.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +",The researchers compared eight African runners and eight Caucasian runners.,Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +","According to the researchers, ""this study indicates greater running economy and higher fractional utilization of VO2 peak in African distance runners.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +","Although not elucidating the origin of these differences, the findings may partially explain the success of African runners at the elite level.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +","Basically, the Africans used less oxygen to accomplish the same results as the Caucasians.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +","The Africans still were able, according to Weston, to run at a higher level of intensity with a higher heart rate.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +",A key aspect of the Africans' success has to do with lactate buildup.,Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +","The fact that the African athletes could compete at a better running economy than the Caucasians at a higher intensity, with about the same amount of lactate accumulation, ""suggests the lactate removal may be enhanced in African runners,"" write Weston and colleagues.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +","According to Martin, this study is likely an outgrowth of a past study showing that the lactate threshold seemed to be higher among African runners than Scandinavian runners.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20000627/long-distance-races +","Most runners tend to train below race pace, says Martin, whereas the Africans run at the higher pace at all times.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20130829/prescription-sleep-aids-a-common-choice-for-american-insomnia +","Other highlights of the report included: +Whites (4.7 percent) were more likely to use sleep aids than blacks (2.5 percent) or Mexican-Americans (2 percent).", +"https://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/news/20151201/1-in-8-american-adults-still-have-high-cholesterol-cdc +","Using data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the investigators also found that fewer black men had high levels of total cholesterol than white, Asian or Hispanic men.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/news/20151201/1-in-8-american-adults-still-have-high-cholesterol-cdc +","Among women, fewer black women had high total cholesterol than white and Hispanic women, they added.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/news/20151201/1-in-8-american-adults-still-have-high-cholesterol-cdc +","According to the report, released Dec. 1 in the NCHS Data Brief, black men and women and Asian men and women had higher levels of good cholesterol than did Hispanic men and women.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/news/20151201/1-in-8-american-adults-still-have-high-cholesterol-cdc +","In addition, black men and women had higher levels of good cholesterol than white men and women, and Asian women had higher levels of good cholesterol than white women, Carroll's team found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/news/20150924/almost-half-of-american-adults-with-hiv-dont-take-meds-report +","Men remain more likely to be HIV-positive than women, and blacks more than any other racial group, with a rate estimated at 1.6 percent.", +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20110706/heart-benefits-from-cutting-back-on-salt +","The studies included mostly middle-aged white or Asian people, for instance, yet high blood pressure is more common among older Americans and African-Americans.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20110706/heart-benefits-from-cutting-back-on-salt +","While the AHA recommends 1,500 milligrams a day maximum for everyone, he says the USDA recommendation is to limit sodium to less than 2,300 milligrams for the general population but less than 1,500 milligrams for people age 51 or older and people of any age who are African-American or have high blood pressure, diabetes, or chronic kidney disease.",Kathleen Doheny +"https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20110214/new-guidelines-on-womens-heart-risk +","We believe that lowering sodium content can markedly lower blood pressure, particularly among African-American women whose hypertension is salt-sensitive.",Denise Mann +"https://teens.webmd.com/news/20180516/big-rise-in-us-kids-teens-attempting-suicide +","By comparison, risk rose by 0.09 percent among black children, and by 0.05 percent among Hispanic children, the researchers said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20100615/limiting-tv-time-makes-kids-active +","Boys, African-American children, and children from lower-income families exceeded the limit more than other groups.",Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20020118/cancer-care-makes-progress +",African-Americans have proportionally more cancers than other racial groups in the U.S.,"Michael W. Smith, MD" +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20020118/cancer-care-makes-progress +",African-American men had the biggest decline in both cancer frequency and deaths among all ethnic groups.,"Michael W. Smith, MD" +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20020118/cancer-care-makes-progress +","Men at high risk, including blacks and men with a father or brother who had prostate cancer before age 50, should begin testing at 45.","Michael W. Smith, MD" +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20181101/on-reservation-hope-remains-despite-grim-statistics +","Jeff Henderson, president and founder of the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health, has spent years studying the health of the reservation, working to provide useful data and research that leaders can use to improve its health.",Kayla Gahagan +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20181101/on-reservation-hope-remains-despite-grim-statistics +","Jeff Henderson, Black Hills Center for American Indian Health",Kayla Gahagan +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20181101/on-reservation-hope-remains-despite-grim-statistics +",Henderson founded the Black Hills center in 1998 after working as a doctor for the Indian Health Service.,Kayla Gahagan +"https://www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/news/20181101/on-reservation-hope-remains-despite-grim-statistics +","Henderson, the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health founder, is working with tribal leaders to make Pine Ridge a smoke-free reservation.",Kayla Gahagan +"https://www.webmd.com/heart/news/20180723/heart-docs-analyze-trends-name-healthiest-foods +","Similarly, a large study of Chinese adults found that those who drank black tea every day had a slightly lower risk of heart disease than nondrinkers.", +"https://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/news/20070706/multiple-sclerosis-race-a-factor +","July 6, 2007 -- Multiple sclerosis may affect the immune systems of African-Americans and whites differently, a new study shows.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/news/20070706/multiple-sclerosis-race-a-factor +","The study, published in the latest edition of the journal Neurology, points out that multiple sclerosis (MS) is rarer but often more severe in African-Americans than in whites.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/news/20070706/multiple-sclerosis-race-a-factor +",The researchers checked the medical records of 66 African-Americans with multiple sclerosis and 132 whites with multiple sclerosis.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/news/20070706/multiple-sclerosis-race-a-factor +",The researchers noted higher levels of antibodies in the African-Americans' spinal fluid.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/news/20070706/multiple-sclerosis-race-a-factor +","In MS, recent genetic studies have begun to identify certain genes which may explain why African-Americans experience more disability, but the products of these genes and the mechanism of their effects remain unknown,"" Rinker adds.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/news/20070706/multiple-sclerosis-race-a-factor +",it's not clear if the study's findings apply to all African-Americans or whites with MS.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/news/20070706/multiple-sclerosis-race-a-factor +","In Rinker's study, African-Americans with multiple sclerosis developed trouble walking sooner than whites.",Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/news/20070706/multiple-sclerosis-race-a-factor +",But that didn't appear to be due solely to African-Americans' higher levels of antibodies in their spinal fluid.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/news/20070706/multiple-sclerosis-race-a-factor +",The researchers call for further studies to learn more about the differences in multiple sclerosis between African-Americans and whites.,Miranda Hitti +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20150226/us-ebola-survivor-dr-craig-spencer-gives-his-side-of-the-story +",He also believes that officials and the media unnecessarily maligned those who were risking their lives to combat the West African epidemic., +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20170925/blacks-elderly-missing-from-us-cancer-trials +",Duma undertook this study after a conversation with a black lung cancer patient about possible chemotherapy treatments., +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20170925/blacks-elderly-missing-from-us-cancer-trials +",Where are the numbers about African-Americans?, +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20170925/blacks-elderly-missing-from-us-cancer-trials +","A cursory look at chemotherapy research revealed that only a handful of blacks had been included in clinical trials involving hundreds of people, Duma said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20170925/blacks-elderly-missing-from-us-cancer-trials +","Of those patients, 83 percent were white, 6 percent were black, just over 5 percent were Asian, almost 3 percent were Hispanic, and around 2 percent were classified as ""other,"" researchers found.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20170925/blacks-elderly-missing-from-us-cancer-trials +","For example, black and Hispanic women are much more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20170925/blacks-elderly-missing-from-us-cancer-trials +","Duma said research already has revealed some differences: +Blacks appear to metabolize some chemotherapy drugs more quickly, meaning they might need larger doses than other groups.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20170925/blacks-elderly-missing-from-us-cancer-trials +","America's history of unethical experimentation on minority groups prompts many to avoid participation in clinical trials, particularly blacks, Duma and Li said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20170925/blacks-elderly-missing-from-us-cancer-trials +","They cited the Tuskegee Study, started in 1932, in which black men were denied treatment for syphilis over four decades so researchers could observe the long-term effects of the venereal disease.", +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20180628/just-1-in-4-americans-gets-enough-exercise +",""" +In the study, investigators Debra Blackwell and Tainya Clarke surveyed exercise habits among more than 155,000 American men and women, aged 18 to 64, between 2010 and 2015.", +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20180628/just-1-in-4-americans-gets-enough-exercise +","""Fourteen states and the District of Columbia had significantly higher percentages of adults meeting the guidelines than the national average, while 13 states had percentages that were significantly below the national average,"" Blackwell said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20180628/just-1-in-4-americans-gets-enough-exercise +","Colorado came out on top among women, said Blackwell, with nearly one-third meeting the guidelines.", +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20180628/just-1-in-4-americans-gets-enough-exercise +","As to what might explain regional differences, Blackwell said ""there are likely many factors that play a role,"" including social and cultural backgrounds, economic status and job status.", +"https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20180628/just-1-in-4-americans-gets-enough-exercise +",Blackwell and Clarke found that states that were home to more professional or managerial workers met higher exercise thresholds., +"https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-apnea/news/20031119/unusual-remedy-helps-sleep-apnea +",Sleep apnea sufferers may benefit from the main ingredient in a poisonous African bean.,Daniel J. DeNoon +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20170222/race-may-play-role-in-recurrent-stroke +","Strokes bring with them a heightened possibility of another attack, and new research suggests black patients may be at especially high risk for recurrence.", +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20170222/race-may-play-role-in-recurrent-stroke +","The risk of recurrent stroke was up to 50 percent higher in black seniors who'd survived a stroke compared to their white peers, according to a report to be presented Wednesday at the International Stroke Conference in Houston.", +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20170222/race-may-play-role-in-recurrent-stroke +","The finding ""suggests that neurologists need to pay extra attention to older black Americans with regard to preventing future strokes,"" said Dr. Andrew Rogove, who reviewed the study.", +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20170222/race-may-play-role-in-recurrent-stroke +",The result: 11 percent of black patients had another ischemic stroke within 12 months., +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20170222/race-may-play-role-in-recurrent-stroke +","Overall, Rogove's team said that, depending on the age range studied, blacks had a 24 percent to 50 percent higher risk of recurrent stroke compared to whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20170222/race-may-play-role-in-recurrent-stroke +","N.Y. He stressed that much was left out of the study -- risks factors such as diabetes, high cholesterol/blood pressure, smoking -- that might help explain why blacks were at higher risk than whites.", +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20170222/race-may-play-role-in-recurrent-stroke +","The findings, however, are significant as they provide the fodder for investigation"" into how black seniors might lower their odds for multiple strokes, he said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20000323/cancer-deaths-men-decline +","But not all the numbers are good, especially for women and African-Americans.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20000323/cancer-deaths-men-decline +","Blacks, on the whole, have the highest cancer incidence rates, and they are about 60% more likely to develop a cancer than are Hispanics or Asian/Pacific Islanders.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20000323/cancer-deaths-men-decline +","Overall, African-Americans are 33% more likely to die of cancer than are whites.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20000323/cancer-deaths-men-decline +","Although white women develop breast cancer more frequently than women of other racial or ethnic groups, black women are still most likely to die of the disease.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20000323/cancer-deaths-men-decline +","For women, the number of cancer deaths continues to rise, and black women and black men are more likely to die from cancer than other racial groups.",Sean Swint +"https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20130220/women-risk-heart-disease +","Awareness has roughly doubled since 1997 among all of the racial groups, but remains far lower overall among African-American and Hispanic women.",Shelley Wood +"https://teens.webmd.com/news/20101107/unprotected-sex-teens +",African-American teens were 41% more likely than whites to have unprotected sex in their first encounters.,Bill Hendrick +"https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20190204/too-many-kids-using-too-much-toothpaste-cdc-says +","The survey also found that about 60 percent of children brushed their teeth twice a day, and that about 20 percent of white and black kids, and 30 percent of Hispanic kids, didn't start brushing until they were 3 or older, the AP reported.", +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20080222/more-strokes-us-than-europe +",African-Americans Have Highest Stroke Odds,Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/stroke/news/20080222/more-strokes-us-than-europe +","African-Americans had the highest odds of having a stroke of any group studied -- they were nearly three times more likely to have had a stroke in their lifetime than ""other Americans,"" the dubious winner of the second-place prize.",Charlene Laino +"https://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/news/20180720/bayer-to-halt-sale-of-essure-birth-control-implant +","While the agency has said that Essure's benefits outweigh its risk, it did slap a ""black box"" warning on the implant in 2016, and ordered more safety studies.", +"https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20081021/suicide-risk-high-for-middle-aged-whites +",Suicide rates were down among African-Americans and remained stable for Asian and Native Americans among that same time period.,Kelley Colihan +"https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180531/pot-replacing-tobacco-and-booze-among-teens +","Boys, black Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics and multi-racial Americans were the most likely to turn to marijuana before other recreational drugs, the new report suggests.", +"https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/news/20180531/pot-replacing-tobacco-and-booze-among-teens +","According to Fairman, the findings also suggest that American Indian/Alaska Natives and black youth are important targets for prevention programs, because these groups are less likely to have access to drug treatment or successful treatment outcomes.", +"https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20180502/blood-type-may-play-role-in-post-trauma-death-risk +","According to the American Red Cross, type O is the most common blood type, found in about 45 percent of white people, and more than 50 percent of blacks and Hispanics.", +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20180425/big-decline-in-births-to-girls-under-15-cdc-says +","In fact, the largest decline in births for girls aged 10 to 14 occurred among black girls, the findings showed.", +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20180425/big-decline-in-births-to-girls-under-15-cdc-says +","The birth rate among black girls in this age group tumbled from 2.4 per 1,000 in 2000 to just 0.5 per 1,000 by 2016, according to the report.", +"https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20180426/more-us-kids-being-diagnosed-with-autism +","""Autism prevalence among black and Hispanic children is approaching that of white children,"" said Dr. Stuart Shapira, associate director for science at the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities.", +"https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20180426/more-us-kids-being-diagnosed-with-autism +","""The higher number of black and Hispanic children now being identified with autism could be due to more effective outreach in minority communities, and increased efforts to have all children screened for autism so they can get the services they need,"" he added in an agency news release.", +"https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/news/20180426/more-us-kids-being-diagnosed-with-autism +","White children are being identified at similar rates now as African-American children,"" Frazier said.", +"https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20180417/girls-born-to-obese-moms-may-face-early-puberty +","However, no associations were found among black girls.", +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20181102/sharp-rise-seen-in-kids-mental-health-er-visits +","But among black children, that figure shot up to 78.", +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20181102/sharp-rise-seen-in-kids-mental-health-er-visits +","But, ""we do know that children in poverty who have been exposed to social stressors -- and sometimes more trauma and violence -- have a higher risk of disorders, so the numbers on differences between black and white need to be compared with poverty rates,"" he added.", +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20181102/sharp-rise-seen-in-kids-mental-health-er-visits +","On that front, Tynan noted that some estimates put the poverty rate for black children at 27 percent, compared with just 10 percent among white children.", +"https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20181102/sharp-rise-seen-in-kids-mental-health-er-visits +","Pew Research paints an even starker divide, he added: 38 percent among black kids versus 11 percent among their white peers.", +"https://www.webmd.com/first-aid/news/20180525/how-to-survive-snake-season-even-if-you-get-bitten +",They are black and red with white or yellow bands.,Matt McMillen diff --git a/cleaned.py b/cleaned.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3313ddf --- /dev/null +++ b/cleaned.py @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +import csv +import datetime + +INPUT_CSV_NAME = 'black_news' +INPUT_FILE_PATH = 'black_news.csv' +OUTPUT_FILE_BASE = 'cleaned/cleaned_' + +def main(): + sentences = [] + with open(INPUT_FILE_PATH, mode='r') as csv_file: + csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter=',') + line_count = 0 + invalid_count = 0 + for row in csv_reader: + sent = row[1].strip() + if (sent[-1] == '.' and "\n" not in sent and 'trypanosomiasis' not in sent): + sentences.append(sent) + line_count += 1 + else: + invalid_count += 1 + print("Initial Sentence Lines: ", line_count) + print("Invalid Count: ", invalid_count) + + sentences = list(set(sentences)) + print("Num Unique Sentence Lines: ", len(sentences)) + + write_time = datetime.datetime.now() + output_file = OUTPUT_FILE_BASE + "_" + INPUT_CSV_NAME + "_" + str(write_time) + '.csv' + with open(output_file, mode='a') as out_file: + for cnt, sent in enumerate(sentences): + out_file.write(sent + '\n') + +main() \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/race_phrases.py b/race_phrases.py index 56ec9b7..7419d7f 100644 --- a/race_phrases.py +++ b/race_phrases.py @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ FILE_PATH = 'webmd_results.txt' SEARCH_TERMS = ['african', 'black'] -OUTPUT_FILE = 'black_2.csv' +OUTPUT_FILE = 'black_news.csv' CHROMEDRIVER_PATH = '/Users/Bomani/chromedriver' WINDOW_SIZE = "1920,1080" @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def main(): with open(OUTPUT_FILE, mode = 'a+') as black_file: csv_writer = csv.writer(black_file, delimiter=',', quotechar='"', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL) for cnt, link in enumerate(fp): - if (link in previous_links or '/qa/' in link or '/news/' in link): + if (link in previous_links or '/news/' not in link): print("Skipping link: %s. \n" % link) continue