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If your mammogram letter says your breast tissue is dense, read the line about your result first. Dense describes how your tissue looks on the images, and it isn't a cancer finding. Then get your …
Discoid lupus leaves coin-shaped patches with dark rims and pale centers, and on the scalp it can scar …
A lighter patch on dark skin is easy to spot and hard to read. Most come from a …
If your comb, shower drain, or wash-day towel has been catching more hair since late summer, you are …
Hard, itchy bumps that keep coming back are often prurigo nodularis, and Black adults carry a large share …
Skin tags are harmless, but on brown and black skin they can be a blood sugar signal, and …
Athlete's foot rarely looks like the bright red photos in a textbook when it shows up on brown …
On brown and black skin, lichen planus can look gray or brown rather than red or violet, and …
Most men with trich feel nothing, which is how it keeps moving between partners. Here is what symptoms …
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Black LGBTQ+ people face the sharpest within-Black health disparities in the United States. Black men who have sex with men …
ReadBlack women in the United States face the widest maternal mortality gap in the high-income world. In 2023, the Black …
ReadBlack men develop heart failure at a median age of 39, two decades before white peers, per the CARDIA cohort …
ReadApproximately 1 in 365 Black or African American babies is born with sickle cell disease, and about 1 in 13 …
ReadBlack seniors are Medicare-enrolled at similar rates to white seniors but receive less hospice, more intensive end-of-life procedures, and fewer …
ReadData
1.2M
Uninsured adults in the Medicaid coverage gap. Hispanic and Black adults together are 56% of them.
Updated July 30, 2026
View data Cardiovascular57.1%
Age-adjusted share of Black adults with hypertension, and almost the same for Black men and Black women, which is true of no other group NCHS reported.
Updated July 30, 2026
View data Chronic Disease1 in 365
Black or African American births in which sickle cell disease occurs. About 1 in 13 Black babies is born with sickle cell trait.
Updated July 30, 2026
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H.R. 3888
Environmental justice research consistently shows Black and low-income communities bear disproportionate PFAS exposure. A 2021 Nature Communications study …
View analysisH.R. 567
Black adults have lower rates of employer-sponsored insurance and higher Medicaid enrollment rates relative to white adults. In …
View analysisH.R. 2234
Black women die in childbirth at 3.3 times the rate of white women in the United States (CDC …
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Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, and it does not affect …
View guide1 in 10
More than one in five Black adults experience at least one anxiety disorder at …
View guide~13% of African Americans carry two high-risk APOL1 variants
For decades, the higher rates of chronic kidney disease and kidney failure among Black …
View guide7.7x
Asthma is common across all American communities, but its consequences are not equally distributed. …
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Atrial fibrillation (AFib) carries a paradox for Black adults: the clinical diagnosis rate is …
View guide40%
Breast cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells in the breast, most often starting …
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