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Black men in the United States have some of the highest rates of high blood pressure in the …
Black adults more often show low total vitamin D on standard blood tests, mostly because more melanin slows …
A urinary tract infection is treatable in days, but the burning, urgency, and pelvic pain mean nothing until …
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Black women develop lupus at roughly three times the rate of white women, get sicker younger, and die …
One in eight women develops a thyroid problem, and the symptoms get blamed on stress, aging, or depression …
Black Americans develop kidney failure at four times the rate of White Americans. Two forces drive most of …
Hair loss in Black women is not one condition. Traction alopecia from tight styles is reversible early but …
Colorectal cancer screening for average-risk adults now starts at 45, not 50. That change matters for Black Americans, …
Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis, it is rising, and it runs harder in Black men. Here …
Black adults are far more likely to get too little sleep and to have insomnia go untreated, and …
Atopic dermatitis is more common and more often severe in Black children and adults, and on darker skin …
Obstructive sleep apnea is common in Black adults and frequently goes undiagnosed, often until the disease is more …
Acid reflux that strikes now and then is common and rarely serious. When heartburn comes back two or …
PrEP is a daily pill or a shot that prevents HIV, and it works about 99 percent of …
About 1 in 13 Black or African American babies is born with sickle cell trait. Trait is not …
Hepatitis C is one of the few serious diseases medicine can fully cure, yet most people who carry …
Black people get melanoma far less often than white people, yet are about three times more likely to …
Fatty liver disease, now called MASLD, is fat buildup in the liver tied to weight, diabetes, and metabolic …
Perimenopause is the years before your final period, when estrogen swings and cycles turn erratic. Black women tend …
Waking up drenched is rarely random. Night sweats that soak through your clothes or bedding have a short …
Black adults develop COPD after fewer years of smoking, get diagnosed later, and land in the hospital more …
Numbness and tingling in your hands or feet, the pins-and-needles feeling, is most often peripheral neuropathy, and diabetes …
Metformin is the standard first medicine for type 2 diabetes, and most of its side effects are mild …
Black adults, and Black women in particular, report more severe arthritis pain and more disability than white adults, …
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