HIV in the U.S. hits American blacks extra hard

Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 1 week (www.nytimes.com)

The CDC has released a report on the way HIV spreads in the United States. Again, American blacks are at disproportionately high risk. While caucasian gay and bisexual men tend to get infected int heir thirties and forties, black gay and bisexual men tend to get infected in their teens and twenties.

The writeup does not say whether they adjusted for socioeconomic factors, but they do assert that the infected blacks were no more likely to be drug users or to engage in risky sexual behaviors than their counterparts in other races

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University of Minnesota study refutes belief that black men have more aggressive prostate cancer

bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.eurekalert.org)

A University of Minnesota study of prostate cancer tumors from Caucasian and African-American men has shown no evidence that the cancer is more aggressive in black men.

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