Heart failure strikes younger African-Americans at the same rate as older Caucasians
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 16:35
in Health & Medicine
Heart failure -a disabling and often deadly form of heart disease -is hitting African Americans in their thirties and forties at the same rate as Caucasians in their fifties and sixties, according to a study featured as the lead article of the March 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.