african-americans & heart disease
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• CHD is disease that involves damage in the heart’s major blood vessels.
• As plaque builds up in the arteries of a person
with heart disease, the inside of the artieries begins to narrow, which lessens or blocks the flow of blood.
• 82% of people who die of coronary heart disease
are 65 and older • The risk of heart disease doubles every decade
after age 55
FACTS ABOUT CORONARY HEART DISEASE
● RISK FACTORS: Obesity, high blood cholesterol, poor diet, excessive alcohol consumption, limited access to quality food and health care.
● Heart disease more prevalent in
African-Americans than in Caucasians ● Among non-Hispanic Blacks age 20 and
older, 6.8% of men and 7.1% of women have heart disease
PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS OF HEART DISEASE VS. GENERAL POPULATION
BACKGROUND TRADITIONS PERSONAL EXPERIENCES POPULATION SIZE: est. 324,227,000 REGIONS OF RESIDENCE FAITH
AFRICAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS
• Low resource communities- Less access to health care
• Low socioeconomic status- Low income, little/no education, language barriers, unemployment, lack of insurance
• African-Americans are three times as likely to live in poverty than Caucasians
• The unemployment rates for African-Americans double those of Caucasians
SOCIOECONOMIC DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONS AFFLICTED
● In 2015, CHD caused the death of 365,000 people
● 26% of those deaths were African-
Americans ● Death rates for African-Americans were
181.1 for males and 110.3 for females. ● Morbidity is less with the promotion of a
healthy lifestyle and environmental changes
MORBIDITY/MORTALITY VS. GENERAL POPULATION
A low-fat, high-fiber diet Tobacco cessation
Limit alcohol consumption Lower blood pressures, if elevated
Decrease body fat is overweight or obese Increase daily activity
Reduce sugar consumption Medicines
HEART DISEASE TREATMENTS/PREVENTIONS
REFERENCES ● American Heart Association. (2015). African American heart disease, stroke.
Retrieved from www.heart.org
● Barber, S., Hickson, D. A., Xu, W., Sims, M., Nelson, C., & Diez-Roux, A. V. (2016).
Neighborhood disadvantage, poor social conditions, and cardiovascular disease
incidence among African-American adults in the Jackson Heart Study. American
journal of public health, 106(12), 2219-2226. Doi: 10-2105/AJPH.2016.303471
● Grothe, K B., Bodenlos, J S., Whitehead, D,. Olivier, J., & Brantley, P. J. (2008). The
psychosocial vulnerability model of hostility as a predictor of coronary heart disease
in low-income African-Americans. Journal of clinican psychology in medical settings,
15(2), 163-169. Doi: 10.1007/s10880-008-9112-0
● Lai, H., Gerstenblith, G., Fisherman, E. K., Brinker, J., Kickler, T., Tong, W. & … Lai,
S. (2012). Vitamin D deficiency is associated with silent coronary artery disease in
cardiovascularly asymptomatic African-Americans with HIV infection. Clinical
infectious diseases, 54(12), 1747-1755.
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