Sentences with phrase «than white women»

Also, African - American women under 45 have a greater incidence of breast cancer than white women in the same age range.

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

The risk of maternal mortality has remained about three to four times higher among black women than white women during the past six decades.

Moreover, staggering racial disparities persist, as African American women are almost four times more likely to die in childbirth than white women.

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

African - American women are less likely than white women to be diagnosed with the disease, but more likely to die from it.

These findings confirm many previous studies that show African - American women are at greater risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes than white women.

Due to systemic barriers, women of color rely on the Title X program at higher rates than White women.

African American women tend to go back to work earlier after giving birth than white women, and they are more likely to work in environments that do not support breastfeeding.

Overall, African - American women had higher rates of metabolic syndrome, particularly high blood pressure and high fasting blood sugar levels, than white women at the beginning of the study.

Black and Hispanic women also faced greater risks than white women, for reasons that are not fully clear, experts added.

• Black women of any age have a higher incidence of heart attacks than white women.

Since you've been married for 10 yrs and never dated anyone other than white women....

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.

Black women are less likely than white women to receive prenatal advice from their doctors on the dangers of smoking and alcohol use, a new study reports.

Due to systemic barriers, women of color rely on the Title X program at higher rates than white women.

Since the mid-1980s, white evangelical women have shifted more Republican than white women overall, a move that has solidified as it becomes harder for pro-life women to find a place in the Democratic Party.

Black women and their babies are 4X more likely to die than white women no matter their socioeconomic status.

He talks about how the African - American community's illegitimacy rate has reached 70 percent, But he does not touch on the fact that Black women are less likely to have an abortion than White women.

If you are a black woman, you are seven times more likely to be detained under mental health legislation than a white woman.

Twice as many ethnic minority women live in poverty in the UK than white women, according to a report by the Fawcett Society.

Overall, black women exhibited significantly higher BDNF than white women during the perinatal period.

Indeed, one national study that looked at five major common causes of maternal death and injury that collectively account for more than a quarter of all pregnancy - related deaths found that black women did not have a significantly higher prevalence than white women of those conditions — preeclampsia, eclampsia, obstetric hemorrhage, placental abruption and placenta previa.

In fact, African - American women had higher cancer rates at nearly all ages compared with white women, and the disparity was more pronounced at older ages, likely attributable to African - American women reporting a higher prevalence of hysterectomy than white women.

Secondary results of the study showed that independent of age and disease stage, black and American Indian women were approximately 35 percent less likely to undergo surgery than white women, and uninsured and Medicaid - insured patients were roughly 50 percent less likely to undergo surgery than privately insured patients.

«African American women more resistant to anti-inflammatory effect of aspirin than white women.»

However, the researchers found that breast tumours were still slightly larger in ethnic minority than White women, even after adjustment for age and other potential confounding factors.

Dr Gathani said: «Much of the apparent excess of aggressive breast tumours in South Asian and Black women is simply because they are younger than White women.

African American women are at greater risk for IBC than white women.

African - American women are more likely to have lupus than white women.

Black women tend to have lower visceral adiposity than white women but Hispanic women come out top for belly fat storage [4].

of colour are considered more sexual and exotic than white women, the.

Studies have shown that women are more likely than men to have subprime mortgages, and Black and Latina women have more subprime home loans than white women.

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.

Racism and discriminatory public policy have created systemic and economic barriers that make Black and Latina women more likely to be low - income and have Medicaid coverage than White women.

Meanwhile, black women with large waistlines had more fat around their hearts than white women with similar amounts of belly bulge.

Cuomo announced a series of initiatives aimed at addressing a disturbingly high rate of maternal mortality among black women, who are four times more likely to die in childbirth than white women in New York State, including a pilot program that will expand Medicaid coverage for doulas.

And, even though breast cancer rates overall are lower in black women than white women, mortality rates are higher in black women and it tends to be diagnosed at a younger age, according to the Susan G. Komen organization.

James noted the disparity in survival rates among breast cancer patients of color — she said that black women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, and Hispanic women are typically diagnosed at later stages than whites.

However, because minority women were initially at higher risk of diabetes than white women, in terms of the actual number of avoidable cases, a healthier diet had greater benefit for minority women.

Black women are four times more likely to die than white women (Block, 2007).»

Nationally, black women have a maternal mortality rate three to four times higher than white women, and the District suspects its gap is even wider.

On the other side, hispanic / latino women graduated with the least amount of debt; they have $ 564 less to pay off than white women.

«Black and South Asian women are known to be slightly less likely to develop breast cancer than White women.

African - American women experienced a much more rapid increase in metabolic syndrome severity before menopause, but a slower rate of increase after menopause, than white women.

That being said, although the gap has closed a bit, breast cancer death rates are in no way the same for black women and white women: In 2015, the breast cancer death rate was 39 percent higher for black women than white women, whereas in 2011 that number was 41 percent.

(JOSE LUIS PELEAZ / GETTY IMAGES) Even though breast cancer incidence rates are slightly lower overall among African - American women than white women (the incidence is lower still among Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women), a combination of socioeconomic factors and unexplained biological differences make the disease more deadly — and in some cases, harder to treat — in the black community.

When Chastain learned women of color make far less than white women, she bundled her salary with Spencer's in a «favored nations» deal for their upcoming holiday comedy.