Although African-American adults are 30 percent more. Regardless of education and income, residential segregation based on race and ethnicity in the U.S. The U.S. can have adverse consequences for CVD in African Americans and other racial and ethnic minority populations.
These stakeholders can and should commit to contribute to supporting and promoting cardiovascular health and reducing related health disparities. This study is the continuation of another recent Tulane study that, similarly, found that black Americans are 59% more likely to die prematurely than white Americans. Together, these social, environmental, community, and neighborhood characteristics and determinants of health play an important role in the continued high burden of CVD and related health disparities among African Americans. Added to this burden of disease are the widespread disparities in access to high-quality cardiovascular health care experienced by African Americans and other underserved racial and ethnic minorities.
In a sample of African-American adults from religious communities, the prevalence of hypertension, obesity, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes was 64%, 62%, 39% and 23%, respectively. The higher prevalence of adverse health behaviors, such as poor diet quality, low adherence to recommended physical activity, insufficient or poor-quality sleep, and untreated sleep disorders in African-Americans compared to whites, contributes to increasing the burden of CVD and related risk factors in the former.
