Smoking may increase kidney disease risk in African-Americans
May 27, 2016
American Heart Association Rapid Access Journal Report
Dallas, TX – Cigarette smoking is considered a universal health hazard, but it may be particularly damaging to kidney function among African-Americans smokers, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
“Cardiovascular and kidney diseases are closely linked, but few people are aware of the impact of smoking on kidney function,” said Michael Hall, M.D., study lead author and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Cigarette smoking may be damaging to kidney function in African-Americans.
New statistics from American Heart Association shows one of every three U.S. Deaths caused by Cardiovascular Disease
December 18, 2015
Dallas, TX – One of every three deaths in the U.S. in 2013 were from heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases, while heart disease and stroke were the No. 1 and No. 2 killers worldwide, according to American Heart Association’s 2016 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update.
Produced since 1958, the update is created from the most-recent data available and compiled by the AHA, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other government sources.
Brain Clot. (American Heart Association)
