State of Disparities in Cardiovascular Health in the United States

By G. Mensah, Ali H. Mokdad, E. Ford, K. Greenlund, J. Croft. Circulation, 2005

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Race, race-based discrimination, and health outcomes among African Americans. (2007, background): “Diabetes, cardiovascular heart disease, hypertension, and obesity disproportionately affect African Americans (Davis et al. 2003; Krieger 1990; Mensah et al. 2005; USDHHS 1990, 2000, 2005).”
Epidemiology of Sudden Cardiac Death: Clinical and Research Implications (2008, background): “Risk factors for coronary artery disease such as lack of physical activity, smoking, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, obesity, and DM are more common among individuals with lower socioeconomic status (81,84,85).”
Rethinking the biopsychosocial model of health: Understanding health as a dynamic system (2017, neutral): “Her family experiences diseases common among Alaska Native populations (Indian Health Service, 2016; Mensah, Mokdad, Ford, Greenlund, & Croft, 2005).”
Decline in Cardiovascular Mortality: Possible Causes and Implications (2017, neutral): “3%) was noted in black women with or without a high-school education.(97) In spite of the steady decline in smoking since the publication of the first Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health in 1964,(98) smoking still continues to influence CVD risk.”