BE MORE PRO-ACTIVE IN YOUR HEALTHCARE!

BE MORE PRO-ACTIVE IN YOUR HEALTHCARE! SAYING IT AGAIN & AGAIN! I am suggesting for those who want to do better for themselves in 2024 to watch two shows on NETFLIX, You Are What You Eat, The Twin Experiment & What The Health, Please don't reject knowledge because the numbers don't lie!Several deadly diseases strike black Americans harder and more often than they do white Americans.It means improving health education. It means overcoming disparities in health care. It means investments targeted to the health of black Americans. And the evidence so far indicates that these investments will pay health dividends not just for racial minorities, but for everyone.Several deadly diseases strike black Americans harder and more often than they do white Americans.Diabetes is 60% more common in black Americans than in white Americans. Blacks are up to 2.5 times more likely to suffer a limb amputation and up to 5.6 times more likely to suffer kidney disease than other people with diabetes.African Americans are three times more likely to die of asthma than white Americans.Strokes kill 4 times more 35- to 54-year-old black Americans than white Americans. Blacks have nearly twice the first-time stroke risk of whites.Blacks develop high blood pressure earlier in life -- and with much higher blood pressure levels -- than whites. Nearly 42% of black men and more than 45% of black women aged 20 and older have high blood pressure.Cancer treatment is equally successful for all races. Yet black men have a 40% higher cancer death rate than white men. African American women have a 20% higher cancer death rate than white women. #healthcareand blacks #diabetesandblacks #strokes #blackpeopslediseases #@healthinsurance #highbloodpressure #blackshealthdisparities