Health, United States: Spotlight Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Heart Disease

Five highlights in the CDC’s most recent Health, United States report, based on data from 1999 to 2017:

1. Black patients were more than twice as likely as Asians or Pacific Islanders to die of heart disease in both 1999 and 2017.
2. Non-Hispanic whites are the only demographic whose rate of cardiovascular disease declined over the 18-year period.
3. Black adults aged 20 and up were by far the most likely group to have hypertension between 2015 and 2016.
4. Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks were most likely to have diabetes and be obese in 2015 and 2016.
5. Total cholesterol levels were relatively similar among all demographics between 2015 and 2016.