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Study Reveals Officer-Involved Killings of Unarmed Black Individuals Linked to Adverse Sleep Outcomes in Black Community

The central inquiry of the study focused on whether officer-involved killings of unarmed Black individuals are associated with adverse sleep health outcomes in the community. Utilizing a difference-in-differences design, researchers examined changes in sleep duration among non-Hispanic Black individuals before and after exposure to such incidents. […]

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More than half of Black Women in the U.S. have Heart Disease. Here’s why — and how to lower the risk.

     More than half of Black women 20 and older have heart disease. According to a recent report by the EH Project, they’re also 2.4 times more likely to develop heart disease than white women. The same report showed that, as of 2019, the age-adjusted death rate from heart disease was 165 per 100,000 in Black women compared to 129.6 per 100,000 in white women. Coronary artery disease, which restricts blood flow to the heart, is more common in Black women as well. […]