A recent study has found that African-Americans experienced sudden cardiac arrest at more than twice the rate of their Caucasian counterparts regardless of gender; the former group were also much younger when the event happened.
Despite advances in medicine, mysteries still exist regarding the differences in disease prevalence rates among certain groups.
A recent study adds to the divergence by finding that African-Americans are at more than double the risk of having a sudden cardiac arrest event than their Caucasian counterparts.
On an annual basis, black men experienced about 175 incidences per 100,000 people compared to just 84 per 100,000 for white men; black women had a rate of about 90 per 100,000 versus just 40 per 100,000 for white women.
