Causes of Death Differ in Blacks and Whites in U.S.
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In 2002, three of the ten leading causes of death differed between blacks and whites in the US, reflecting disparities in health care, according researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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Black Americans are less likely than whites to start smoking but they&#39;re also less likely to quit once they do start, says a study in the November issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
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A study of older British men finds that those who shrink in height by about an inch or more over 20 years are more likely to die earlier than other men. Those men also have a greater risk of heart disease.
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Black American women are more likely  to have a hard-to-treat form of breast cancer, they get it  earlier and they are more likely to die of it, researchers said  on Thursday.
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Black women with early-stage breast cancer have lower survival rates than their white counterparts even after taking into account variables such as tumor size and socioeconomic differences, researchers said.
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The risk factors for a heart attack are the same for everyone, whether male or female, rich or poor, black or while -- unhealthy cholesterol levels and tobacco use.
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A collection of genes involved in early development may help explain why black babies are more at risk of sudden infant death syndrome than other US groups, researchers said on ...
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THURSDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- Black Americans are more likely than whites to suffer severe, untreated and disabling depression, U.S. research shows.
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US black men aged 65 and older run twice the risk of dying from prostate cancer than comparable whites, but they are less likely to have a common blood test to detect the disease, a study said on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - The level of care given to  black patients with HIV in the US seems to depend on the  whether the doctor is black or white, new study findings show.
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Black men in the United States are nearly seven times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than their white counterparts, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Black residents of nursing  homes are more likely to develop bedsores, or "pressure  ulcers," than whites are, according to the results of a study  published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.  Differences in the characteristics of the nursing homes do not  appear to explain the increased risk for bedsores.
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U.S. black men aged 65 and older run twice the risk of dying from prostate cancer than comparable whites, but they are less likely to have a common blood test to detect the disease, a study said on Monday.
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Black women with uterine cancer are  more likely to die than white women given similar treatment,  U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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White Americans have a two-fold  higher incidence of bladder cancer than black Americans, but  the risk of death among blacks is 35 percent higher than whites  when patients with the same cancer stage and grade are  compared.
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Blacks still have a much higher  death rate from cancer than whites even though U.S. cancer  death rates are down overall and among blacks as well, the  American Cancer Society said on Thursday.
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Minority women in the United States are less aware of heart problems and stroke than their white counterparts despite being at greater risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a study released on Monday.