An estimated 5 percent of the world’s population has COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and in the U.S., COPD is the third leading cause of death after cancer and heart disease. For black men, COPD could be a double whammy death risk according to one recent study.
Researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston found that COPD is a much greater lung cancer risk factor for Black men than for White.
African Americans are more likely to develop and die from lung cancer than any other racial/ethnic group.
The lung cancer risk assessment designed specifically for African Americans confirms that COPD presents unique lung cancer risk factors for African Americans.
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source: BlackDoctor.org
