By Denise Mann
HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, March 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) Black Americans who live in rural areas are two to three times more likely to die from diabetes and high blood pressure compared with white rural folks, and this gap hasn t changed much over the last 20 years, new research shows.
The study spanned from 1999 through 2018, and will be published as a research letter in the March 23 issue of the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Experts not involved in the research worry that this racial divide may have increased due to restrictions that COVID-19 has placed on daily life.
The doctors didn't know what to do. Audrey, the incapacitated young woman in the ICU, had just celebrated her 29th birthday. She was physically fit
The doctors didn t know what to do.
Audrey, the incapacitated young woman in the ICU, had just celebrated her 29th birthday. She was physically fit and had been in perfect health. Just six months ago she ran a marathon with her twin sister Kelsey. And Audrey had always been health conscious; she worked as a transplant nurse in Denver, Colo.
The medical team nine doctors working in unison with x-ray technicians, phlebotomists and nurses could not explain why Audrey s heart was failing.
Audrey and Kelsey Ellis were born on March 17, 1991, in Berkeley, Calif. Audrey is exactly 10 minutes older. They referred to each other as Wombie, short for wombmate. The two were inseparable in their youth and the only time Kelsey recalls fighting with her sister was on one occasion over clothes in middle school.
Audrey and Kelsey Ellis, twins born exactly 10 minutes apart, always made sure to spend their birthday together. Last year, on their 29th birthday, the celebration would be overwhelmed by illness.