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Health, United States: Spotlight Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart Disease
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
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Source Name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Five highlights in the CDC’s most recent Health, United States report, based on data from 1999 to 2017:
- Black patients were more than twice as likely as Asians or Pacific Islanders to die of heart disease in both 1999 and 2017.
- Non-Hispanic whites are the only demographic whose rate of cardiovascular disease declined over the 18-year period.
- Black adults aged 20 and up were by far the most likely group to have hypertension between 2015 and 2016.
- Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks were most likely to have diabetes and be obese in 2015 and 2016.
- Total cholesterol levels were relatively similar among all demographics between 2015 and 2016.
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