Heart Disease and Stroke in African American Women

HEART DISEASE AND STROKE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN

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Abstract

Heart disease is the most obvious killer of women in America. Overweight, diabetes, elevated cholesterol, and hypertension are all helping, or bringing about, sicknesses of heart disease. African American women are lopsidedly influenced by heart disease and its accompanying sicknesses, and this is particularly the case for African American women in the South. This study assesses the effect that communication and community have on the aversion information and practices of sixteen African American women in the North Carolina. These women were from middle class foundations and working class and middle class foundations. Generally, there was a knowledge crevice between the wellbeing practices and practices of working class and middle class members. Working class members additionally were more inclined to be overweight than the middle class members. Members ascribed their consuming and activity practices to different interpersonal and ecological variables, including access to supermarkets and a workout accomplice.

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African American ladies, specifically, are enormously affected by coronary illness. For African American ladies, the passing rates from coronary illness and cerebrovascular infection surpass those of all American ladies -Caucasian, Native American, Latino, Pacific and Asian Islander (Fleury & Lee, 2006, p.131). In this population stroke disease and coronary illness remain the first and third heading reason for death (Lutfiyya et al., 2008, p. 86). Factors may represent the expanded danger of coronary illness and stroke among African American ladies.

Regarding the weight, African American ladies and young ladies are more overweight and obese than those of other ethnic communities (Taylor et al., 2009, p. 53). Among African American ladies, 50.8% are corpulent, and 78% are obese (Taylor et al., 2009, p. 53). Besides...