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Why Are Minorities at Greater Risk for Heart Disease?

African-American men and women have double the rate of fatal heart disease of their white counterparts of the same age, according to an alarming new study published in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) this week. Even though deaths from heart attacks and heart disease have dropped since the 1970s, the decline has been steeper for whites than for blacks, “widening a longstanding disparity,” the researchers reported.

Another study in the same issue of JAMA reports that up to 80 percent of US Hispanic/Latino adults have one or more major risk factors for cardiovascular disease, the leading killer of Americans. As a result, “this relatively young ethnic group is at high risk for future CVD morbidity and mortality as it ages,” the researchers predict.

What’s behind this deadly divide in heart attack and stroke risk? I talked to Monika Safford, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and lead author of the African-American heart disease study.

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