There’s growing evidence that Black heart failure patients are less likely to get advanced therapies than White patients. A study published Wednesday in the journal Circulation: Heart Failure ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for all adults in the U.S. But for Black and Hispanic people, the risk is even higher than it is for white people. No matter what the cause, the numbers ...

Black patients are 15% less likely to receive palliative care than white patients who have similar heart ailments. Palliative care focuses on providing relief from pain and other symptoms of a ...

Compared to an overall rate of 184 heart disease deaths per 100,000 people in the U.S., Black Georgians die at a rate of 207 per 100,000 people, with white Georgians dying at a rate of 185 per ...

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 ...

Black and Hispanic adults in the US are less likely than White adults to get statins, medications that prevent or treat common forms of heart disease, according to a new study. For the study ...

The trajectory appears particularly steep for Black men, who demonstrate higher rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart failure compared to their white counterparts. Beyond the immediate risk ...

A 2020 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that Black patients received significantly fewer specialist referrals than white patients ... for improving heart health in the Black ...

Black infants with congenital heart disease are 40% more likely to die in the first year of life than white infants with congenital heart disease, according to research presented during the ...