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Celiac disease is real in Black adults, and the belief that it is a white-only condition keeps Black …
Vitiligo strikes all skin tones at about the same rate, but the white patches read far louder on …
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 …
Sarcoidosis is roughly three times more common in Black Americans than white Americans, and it tends to be …
Multiple sclerosis is not rare in Black Americans. Decades of that myth produced later diagnoses and worse outcomes, …
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease that attacks your joints, and it is not the same as the …
Sjogren's is an autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks the glands that make tears and saliva, and …
Black adults develop systemic sclerosis younger than white patients, are more likely to have the aggressive diffuse form, …
Ankylosing spondylitis is an inflammatory arthritis of the spine that doctors long assumed was rare in Black patients. …
Psoriatic arthritis joins joint inflammation to psoriasis, and in Black patients it is diagnosed later, treated less, and …
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is the most common cause of an underactive thyroid, and it hits women far more than …
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