Gestational Diabetes in Black Women: Screening and Risks
Gestational diabetes is high blood sugar that starts in pregnancy. It usually causes no symptoms, so the glucose test at 24 to 28 weeks is what catches it. Black women face the highest risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes afterward, and the postpartum test that prevents that next diagnosis is the…
Adult ADHD in Black Adults: The Diagnosis That Came Late
If you spent your whole life called lazy, scattered, or unmotivated, that may have been undiagnosed ADHD, not a character flaw. Black adults are diagnosed with ADHD years later than white adults, and many were never caught as kids.
Why Lactose Intolerance Is So Common in Black Adults
For most Black adults, the body slows lactase production after childhood. That is the genetic default for two-thirds of the world, not a disease, and it does not mean you have to give up the foods you love.
Menthol Cigarettes and Quitting: A Guide for Black Smokers
About 81% of Black adults who smoke use menthol, the result of decades of targeted tobacco marketing, not personal weakness. Menthol makes cigarettes easier to start and harder to quit. Here is what works, and where to get free help.
Cataracts in Black Adults: Don't Accept Vision Loss
A cataract clouds the eye's natural lens and blurs your vision, and it is one of the most common parts of aging. It is also fixable. Black Americans carry more undiagnosed cataracts and more cataract blindness, yet they are less likely to get the outpatient surgery that restores sight. That gap…
Rosacea on Black Skin: Why It Gets Missed and Mistreated
Rosacea is not a white-skin disease. It is a chronic inflammatory facial condition that affects Black patients too, but the redness that defines it is hard to see on brown skin, so it is caught late, often after the disease has already advanced.
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