Dr. Makeda Dawkins discusses liver disease risks for African Americans, debunks detox myths, and shares prevention strategies ...

African Americans and Hispanics are also more likely to suffer from obesity-related diseases. Blacks are 1.8 times more likely to have type 2 diabetes than whites and Mexican Americans ...

When he's not seeing patients, he's in the sound studio, creating hip-hop songs about medical conditions like obesity, heart disease and stroke in an attempt to educate the black community. "I started ...

Intriguing polymorphisms of the epithelial sodium channel are consistent with patterns of hypertension seen in African Americans. Obesity, especially in African-American women, may be closely ...

The study also found Native American students had the highest obesity prevalence compared to their Hispanic, White, Asian, and African American counterparts. "It's poverty, and it's socioeconomic ...