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By Jasmine Browley ·Updated April 24, 2024
Per the Office of Minority Health, in 2018, African American adults were 60 percent more likely than non-Hispanic white adults to be diagnosed with diabetes by a physician.Data also suggests that racism and lack of access to quality care is exacerbating the diabetes epidemic, pushing diabetes patients to a higher likelihood to heart disease, and twice as likely to die than others without diabetes.
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