Epidemiology

First Atlas Of Geographic And Racial, Ethnic Disparities In Heart Disease Death Rates For U.S. Men Released

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 8th, 2001

The greatest burden for heart disease exists among African-American men and among men residing in parts of the rural south, according to a new report, "Men and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality," released June 20, 2001, by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and West Virginia University (WVU).

"Men and Heart Disease" provides a first-ever comprehensive look at the geographical and racial/ethnic disparities of heart disease deaths for U.S. men aged 35 years and older from 1991-1995. Researchers found that black men are 26% more likely than white men, and almost twice as likely as Hispanic men to die of heart...

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