Abstract

Racial and ethnic minorities constitute 28% of the population in the United States, a percentage that is projected to double by 2050. The growing proportion of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States increases the need to understand the determinants of racial-ethnic disparities in health care, so as to be able to reduce them.1 Although the goals of the Centers for Disease Control plan Healthy People 2010 was to eliminate racial disparities in health care, disparities continue to exist in cardiovascular disease and stroke with a greater burden of these conditions, their risk factors, and mortality among African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, and Asians. Yet …

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