Dr. William Montague Cobb speaks at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. (Photo courtesy of Beth Israel Lahey Health) During an era of discrimination and segregation, Dr. William Montague Cobb fought racism with science. Cobb was a doctor, an anthropologist, a teacher, an author, an editor, a crusader for civil rights, and so much more. “It’s…
(Drs Producoes/E+ via Getty Images) Lea en español Despite its rapid growth, the Hispanic and Latino population in the United States continues to be underrepresented in clinical trials designed to help prevent and treat diseases. Hispanic people make up about 19% of the nation’s population, census data shows, but they represent just a small portion…
(Tetra Images/Brand X Pictures via Getty Images) Lea en español Access to potentially lifesaving heart failure treatments has increased in recent years, but women and Black men remain far less likely to receive them, new research suggests. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association, found racial and gender disparities in…
(triloks/E+ via Getty Images) South Asian and Hispanic people are two fast-growing populations in the United States. Readers were interested in how cardiovascular disease impacts these groups, among other topics related to health disparities. Here are our top 5 health equity stories published this year, ranked in order of unique page views. 1. Why are…
(MR.Cole_Photographer/Moment via Getty Images) Scientists already knew that cardiovascular health can be affected by social determinants of health that include a person’s neighborhood, education, access to healthy foods and economic stability. But new research offers a clue as to why: accelerated biological aging. For the new study, researchers considered epigenetic age acceleration. Epigenetics research looks…
(Jupitersounds/iStock via Getty Images) Exposure to metals in the environment may increase the risk for heart failure among American Indians, a group disproportionately affected by heart disease, new research suggests. The study found American Indians with higher levels of several metals in their urine were at higher risk for heart failure than those with lower…
(NI QIN/E+ via Getty Images) Cardiovascular disease varies greatly across Asian American ethnic groups, underscoring the need to study each individually when it comes to prevention and treatment, according to new research. Asian people are the fastest-growing racial group in the country. At about 24 million people, they make up 7% of the U.S. population…
(Bo Zaunders/Corbis Documentary via Getty Images) “Thank you for your service,” military veterans often are told. For about a million, it might be time to add, “and also for your science.” The Million Veteran Program, a Department of Veteran Affairs research effort underway since 2011, is built on veterans who give a little blood and…
(azndc/E+ via Getty Images) Separating mortality data for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults from Asian American adults reveals large differences in how cardiovascular disease affects these populations, according to a new analysis. Cardiovascular death rates for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are substantially higher than those for Asian American adults, second only to those…
(Liudmila Chernetska/iStock via Getty Images) Lea en español People who live in neighborhoods that were subjected to the historical practice of “redlining” may be less likely to receive lifesaving care from a bystander during a cardiac arrest than people in other neighborhoods, new research suggests. The greater the amount of redlining, the lower the likelihood…