Black Health: A Collection of References to Black People on WebMD

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.

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.

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.

Scientists have come up with a new clue about why weight loss may be particularly hard for obese black women.

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.

Risks were similar for African-American and white women in all age groups.

African-American women were more likely to be obese than white women: 37% vs.

27%.

The fact that Africans dominate long-distance running is widely known, but why they dominate is not so clear.

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.

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.

In the early 1960s, only 27% of blacks lived five years after being diagnosed.

Sub-Saharan Africans with HIV are more likely to take their drugs as directed than are North Americans, according to a new study.