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 ...

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.

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 ...

An elevated heart rate could provide an important clue to which Black adults often have a dangerous ... prevalence of atrial fibrillation than white adults, but have a much higher risk of A ...

This is especially important for Black and Hispanic people, who have higher rates of heart failure than white people. Black people in particular get heart failure at a younger age, and they are ...

the heart disease mortality rate for Black people was nearly 1.4 times the heart disease mortality rate for their White counterparts. Of those 1,540 heart disease-related deaths reported by the ...