Heart Disease (Epidemiology)
Gap Between Races Growing in Heart Disease Deaths
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 30th, 1998
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that in the 35-44 age group, 38.2 blacks per 100,000 died of heart disease each year from 1981 to 1985, compared with 24.3 whites.
By 1991-95, the black death rate had dropped to 26, but the white rate had decreased as well, to 15.7. That is a ratio of 1.66 black deaths to one white death, compared with 1.58-to-1 in 1981-85.
The gap was even greater between black and white women: twice as many black women as white women ages 35 to 54 died of...
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