Educational Attainment, Race, and Ethnicity as Predictors for Ideal Cardiovascular Health: From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 🧵 1/9 ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JA…
"The lifestyle and wellness goals that comprise ideal cardiovascular health may not be equitably obtained across sociodemographic groups, and we sought to determine the relation between race, ethnicity, and level of education with cardiovascular health."
"In some studies, education level has been shown to have a greater effect on life expectancy than does race. Past literature has advocated for education as a means to overcome race‐based differences."
Call to Action: Structural Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association 🧵1/5 ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…
"Black Americans continue to experience the highest mortality rates attributable to CVD and stroke, with almost 30% higher CVD mortality and 45% higher stroke mortality than non-Hispanic White Americans."
"In the health care setting, racial disparities are striking with regard to how often Black patients do not receive life-saving care, thereby impacting who lives and who dies after cardiac arrest."
• Born In Slavery •
Laura Smalley Interview Excerpt
Hampstead, Texas, 1941
Formerly enslaved Laura Smalley discusses some of the songs they used to sing on the plantations during slavery and sings a somber song about "thunderballs rattlin" #BlackHistoryMonth
Although these are "firsthand" accounts I think its important to keep in mind the condition of Black Americans and the conditions under which these recordings were produced
Excerpt from Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya Hartman on the subject
One theme that emerges listening to these recordings is that white people have always been fascinated by "Negro music" and often try to compel ex-slaves to perform for them 😒
Excerpt from The Half That's Never Been Told by Edward Baptist