Critical Condition: Health in Black America

Critical Condition: Health in Black America « Series from 2025

Series from 2025

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Duration: 5760 min
Genres: Special Interest

Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to have high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease than White Americans, and their life expectancy is about five years shorter.

Why?

From false beliefs that permeate modern medicine to life experiences that can damage human cells, uncover the underlying causes of racial health disparities.

From NOVA.

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Critical Condition: Health in Black America

Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to have high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease than White Americans, and their life expectancy is about five years shorter. Why? From false beliefs that permeate modern medicine to life experiences that can damage human cells, uncover the underlying causes of racial health disparities. From NOVA.

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