Heart Disease and Black Women

Heart disease and stroke is the No. 1 killer in women, and stroke disproportionately affects African Americans. Importantly, African-American women are less ...

The Cardiovascular Disease Epidemic in African American Women

African American women have the highest rates of hypertension, stroke, heart failure, and coronary artery disease observed among women in the United States.

Heart Disease and Black Women: Risk Factors, Prevention Strategies

Black women are disproportionately affected by heart disease. Learn the risk factors and prevention strategies that can save many lives.

Heart Disease and African Americans | Office of Minority Health

In 2019, African Americans were 30 percent more likely to die from heart disease than non-Hispanic whites. · Although African American adults are ...

What Black Women Should Know About Heart Disease

Black American women are more likely than white women to develop heart disease, with stress and structural racism playing a role.

The TRUTH About African American Women and Heart Disease ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for African American women in the United States. This four-page factsheet provides information ...

Black Women and Heart Health | Abbott Newsroom

The Black Women's Health Imperative reports that four out of five black women are considered overweight or obese – and that extra weight is a huge heart disease ...

Heart Disease in African American Women: 10 Things to Look Out For

Over one-half of African American women have some form of cardiovascular disease in the US, and are dying at younger ages than white women.

Experiencing Racism Increases Black Women's Heart Disease Risk ...

New study shows perceived racism in employment, housing, and interactions with the police associated with 26 percent higher risk of coronary ...

Higher levels of perceived racism linked to increased risk of heart ...

The researchers' analysis of perceived interpersonal racism scores for interactions that involved jobs, housing and police found that women who ...

Heart Attacks in Black Women - PCNA

Black women are more likely to have heart attacks than any other racial/ethnic group, often as a result of chronic stress and increased allostatic load.

29DaysofHeart: Shining a Light on Black Women's Heart Health

Black women are at increased risk of hypertension, pregnancy-related complications, and diabetes — all risk factors for heart disease. Eight years ago, ...

Heart Disease and Black American Women | EmblemHealth

Research shows that major risk factors for heart disease — like diabetes, smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, high blood pressure, and high ...

Eliminating Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease for Black Women

Black women are disproportionately affected by cardiovascular disease with an excess burden of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. In ...

Heart disease risks for Black women - Mayo Clinic Health System

African American women have an even higher risk of dying from heart disease ― and at a younger age ― than white women, according to the National Heart, Lung ...

Heart disease in African American women: The health disparities ...

African American women have an even higher risk of dying from heart disease, at a younger age, that white women, according to the National Heart, Lung, and ...

Heart Disease Risk: How Race and Ethnicity Play a Role

Black women are twice as likely as white women to develop chronic hypertension during pregnancy. This condition raises a person's risk for cardiovascular ...

Get the facts on heart disease in African American women

49 percent of African American women aged 20 and older have heart disease and they have almost two times the risk of stroke than Caucasians.

Experiences of Racism May Contribute to High Incidence of ...

Black women have a disproportionally higher burden of coronary heart disease (CHD) and CHD-related mortality and earlier onset than women of ...

Why Are Young Black Women at High Risk for Cardiovascular ...

Significant racial and sex disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) persist, and the high risk among young and middle-aged black women, in ...