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Every racial or ethnic group has specific health concerns. Differences in the health of groups can result from:
- Genetics
- Environmental factors
- Access to care
- Cultural factors
On this page, you'll find links to health issues that affect Black and African Americans.
Related Issues
- African-American Hair: Tips for Everyday Care (American Academy of Dermatology)
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Anyone Can Get Skin Cancer
(National Cancer Institute) - PDF Also in Spanish
- Surprising Truth about Prediabetes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Tips from Former Smokers: African Americans (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish
Specifics
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A1C Test and Race/Ethnicity
(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
- African Americans and Glaucoma (Glaucoma Research Foundation)
- African-Americans and Heart Disease, Stroke (American Heart Association)
- Black Americans and HIV/AIDS (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
- High Blood Pressure among Black People (American Heart Association)
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and the Black Community (National Multiple Sclerosis Society) - PDF
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Sickle Cell Anemia: MedlinePlus Health Topic
(National Library of Medicine) Also in Spanish
Statistics and Research
- African American People and Commercial Tobacco: Health Disparities and Ways to Advance Health Equity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Asthma and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
- Cancer and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
- Chronic Liver Disease and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
- FastStats: Health of Black or African American non-Hispanic Population (National Center for Health Statistics)
- Heart Disease and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
- HIV and African American People (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Infant Mortality and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
- Mental and Behavioral Health -- African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
- Obesity and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
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Setting Goals to Be More Active Slows Memory Decline in Older African Americans
(National Institute on Aging)
- TB and Black or African American Persons (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish
Clinical Trials
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Black and African Americans
(National Institutes of Health)
Women
- It's Only Natural: Mother's Love, Mother's Milk (Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health) Also in Spanish
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The Heart Truth for African American Women: Take Action to Protect Your Heart
(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - PDF