But since this difference in AFib rates is mostly noted between Black and white people ... AFib are higher even when you don’t have other heart-related conditions that put you at risk.

In the last 10 years, the rates of hospitalization for heart failure have gone down overall, but the disparities between Black adults and white adults has stayed the same. As for Hispanic adults ...

That same report found that 51% of cardiologists were white and 19% were ... experiencing an elevated heart rate. Smith said she believes that if she had chosen a non-Black cardiologist, she ...

This pattern remained when the scientists compared cardiovascular mortality rates in Black and white women and in Black ... by a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute ...

Black people in the United States have lower rates of heart disease than white people. But they tend to develop it earlier and have worse outcomes. Socioeconomic factors and higher rates of ...

The data showed that a heart transplantation or a ventricular assist device was performed in 11% of the Black patients compared with 22% of the White patients, although death rates were similar in ...

Black patients are dying from heart failure at considerably higher rates than white patients. This should set off alarm bells, but sadly that has not been the case. We need to deploy available ...

"The death rate in white infants decreased significantly but the rate in Black infants did not. Overall, we also found that Black infants died from these abnormal heart structures at a rate that ...