Despite years of efforts to reduce health disparities, a new study is calling attention to the drastic differences in mortality that continue to take a toll among Black Americans.
, a new study is calling attention to the drastic differences in mortality that continue to take a toll among Black Americans.
Researchers found the Black population in the United States experienced more than 1.63 million excess deaths — and more than 80 million excess years of life lost — compared to the White population over a recent 22-year period, from 1999 through 2020. "After a period of progress in reducing disparities, improvements stalled, and differences between the Black population and the white population worsened in 2020," the authors write in the study, published Tuesday"Heart disease had the highest excess mortality rates, and the excess years of potential life lost rates were largest among infants and middle-aged adults," the study notes.
Along with heart disease in both men and women, cancer, especially in males, was a major driver of differences in excess deaths. are typically defined as the"difference between the observed numbers of deaths in specific time periods and expected numbers of deaths in the same time periods," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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