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Article: Black Men Hit With Highest Heart Disease Death Rate, Study Finds.(Brief Article)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- July 9, 2001
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Black men are more likely to die of heart disease than White and Hispanic men, a new study has found.
The study, "Men and Heart Disease: An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities Among Men With Heart Disease," found that race as well as where one lives plays a significant role in heart disease.
The study discovered that Black men older than 35 are 26 percent more likely to die of heart disease than White men. Black men are also nearly twice as likely to die of heart disease than Hispanic men.
The study revealed that about 40 percent of heart disease deaths in Black men occur before they are 65 years old, compared with 21 percent of White men. ...