The intersection of race, ethnicity and health in Afro Latino communities
Feb 21, 2024
Studies often lump all Hispanic people together, which experts say has masked racial health disparities among Afro Latino people.
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From anthropology to civil rights, Dr. William Montague Cobb's influence went beyond medicine
Feb 8, 2024
Dr. William Montague Cobb died in 1990, but his legacy lives on in medicine, anthropology and the battle against racial disparities in health care.
What Hispanic people – and everyone – should know about clinical trials
Jan 22, 2024
The underrepresentation of Hispanic people in clinical trials poses a barrier to health equity, say experts who answer five common questions about clinical research.
Women, Black men less likely to receive lifesaving heart failure treatments
Jan 3, 2024
Treatments for an advanced type of heart failure, including heart transplants, are not prescribed equitably despite increases in access, new research shows.
AHA News' most-read health equity stories of 2023
Dec 20, 2023
Cardiovascular disease impacts U.S. populations in different ways. These are the health equity topics readers were most interested in this year.
Social determinants of health linked to faster genetic aging
Nov 29, 2023
New research suggests epigenetic changes may partly explain why social factors affect heart health.
Exposure to metals may increase heart failure risk among American Indians
Nov 17, 2023
People with higher levels of metals in their urine may be more likely to develop heart failure, according to findings from the largest study of cardiovascular disease in American Indians.
Asian groups in US differ when it comes to cardiovascular disease and its risks
Nov 14, 2023
Cardiovascular risk varies greatly across the ethnic groups that make up the Asian population in the U.S., underscoring the need to research each individually, a new study suggests.
A million US veterans are enlisting for science, each other – and everyone else
Nov 10, 2023
The Million Veteran Program is enabling researchers to look at health, nutrition and genetic details in unprecedented ways. The results will benefit many more than the veterans enabling it.
Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults have second-highest cardiovascular death rate in the U.S.
Nov 8, 2023
Heart disease and stroke death rates for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults have been substantially underestimated, new research suggests.