Sentences with phrase «die than white woman»

We know the stat: Black women are 3 - 4 times more likely to die than white woman from childbirth related reasons.

Yet black women were two to three times more likely to die than white women with the same complication.

Not exact matches

Let me use an example from public health: white woman have a higher rate of developing breast cancer over black woman in the United States, yet even with more cases fewer white woman die from breast cancer than black woman.

New York City statistics include the troubling finding that black women here are nearly eight times more likely to die from pregnancy - related complications than white mothers.

It is not «biased» to tell women that as a low risk, middle class white woman, if they opt to have their full term, singleton baby at home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their baby is almost 5 times more likely to die than if they give birth in the hospital.

James said that while there is a 99 percent survival rate if breast cancer is detected early, black women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than their white counterparts and Hispanic women have significantly higher rates of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than either white or black women.

The researchers found that black women in the United States are dying from cervical cancer at a rate 77 percent higher than previously thought, while white women are dying at a rate 47 percent higher.

African - American women are more likely to die of breast cancer than white women, and breast cancer is more common in African - American women under the age of 45.

After her husband died, Stern consigned a portion of their collection, including many works by black artists, among them David Hammons (above), Wangechi Mutu (below), Simone Leigh, Yinka Shonibare, and Lynette Yiadom Boakye, whose painting of five black women in white dresses sold for more than $ 1.5 million, setting an artist record.

I mean, I think the case would be strong - in the past couple decades the NIH had to step up its work on heart disease in women even though white women were dying of heart disease later in life than men were.

Black women are 71 percent more likely to die from cervical cancer and 243 percent more likely to die from pregnancy - or childbirth - related causes than White women.