Heart Disease
Study explores heart disease risk factors in African Americans Health Center Online The Archives of Internal Medicine completed and published their study of heart disease risk factors in African American people. The study dealt with Coronary artery disease (CAD) where there is hardening or atherosclerosis of the arteries on the surface of the heart, known to many as Coronary heart disease. This disease is amazingly the single largest killer of the American men and women, and also the leading cause of heart attacks. ... Jones of the University of Mississippi Medical Center stated in his report that African American results are very different from White American people and the purpose of the report was to investigate the differences between white and black heart disease incidences and risk factors.