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Black Americans may be more resilient to stress than white Americans

  • Written by Shervin Assari, Research Investigator of Psychiatry, University of Michigan

White Americans live on average3.6 years longer than black Americans. If you look only at men, the difference becomes 4.4 years.

As I found in a recent study, the main reason behind this disparity is that black Americans are at higher risk of most chronic medical conditions, such as hypertension, obesity, heart disease, stroke and cancer than other...

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