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as well as the corresponding rates of disease, and some of the results are truly shocking. african-americans have significantly higher chances of developing most chronic diseases. joining me now is tai taistaise taise gaines-reed. she is the resident doctor at the grio. good morning. give me an outline here just in general. what are the issues facing in particular the african-american community right now? right. so with the grio what we re focusing on in the setting of the be well, be healthy week are the main health tleeds of the black community. we looked at the leading causes of death among african-amerins in this country and we selected seven of them. what s actually interesting is i lot of them overlap with the leading causes of death for all americans but when you look at the actual numbers black americans are being affected much more and in a lot of cases dying more from these same diseases. and why is that? what do you attribute this disparity here? why is it hitting this p