Are there diseases specific for race or ethnicity?
While diseases affect all demographics there are a few which particular populations are at risk for. Use the online databases to search which you are at particular risk for. · African-American men are five times more likely to die of HIV/AIDS than white men. · African-American men have the highest rate of prostate cancer in the world — they are at least 50 percent more likely to develop the disease, and twice as likely to die from it, than white men. · African-American men are about 30 percent more likely than whites to suffer a stroke and 40 percent more likely to die from it. · Among men age 40-59, half of African Americans and 30 percent of whites have high blood pressure. · African Americans are about 60 percent more likely to develop diabetes than whites. · African American men are more likely to develop cancer than men from any other racial or ethnic group. They also have a far higher death rate from most cancers, including oral and lung cancer. · Latino men are less likely than
