High Rate of Early Heart Failure Seen in Blacks (HealthDay)

HealthDay – WEDNESDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) — Blacks tend to develop
heart failure 20 years earlier than whites, a long-running study
shows.

High heart failure rate seen in younger U.S. blacks (Reuters)

Reuters – Heart failure may be about 20 times more common among young and middle-age blacks than whites in the United States, and it strikes blacks at a younger age, according to a 20-year study published on Wednesday.

Study finds younger blacks have more heart failure (AP)

AP – One in 100 black men and women develop heart failure before age 50, according to one of the first long-term studies to look at the life-threatening condition in younger adults. The research suggests blacks in that age group suffer the condition at a rate 20 times higher than whites do — an astounding difference more pronounced than earlier studies had indicated.

More evidence that depression is hard on the heart (AP)

AP – Severe depression may silently break a seemingly healthy woman’s heart. Doctors have long known that depression is common after a heart attack or stroke, and worsens those people’s outcomes. Monday, Columbia University researchers reported new evidence that depression can lead to heart disease in the first place.