Heart Disease and African Americans. Although African American adults are 40 percent more likely to have high blood pressure, they are less likely than their non-Hispanic white counterparts to have their blood pressure under control. In 2017, African Americans were 20 percent more likely to die from heart disease than non-Hispanic whites.
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