As Heart Awareness Month concludes, leaders within the African American medical community are urging renewed attention to a crisis that continues to claim Black lives at higher rates, even as overall cardiovascular deaths decline nationwide.
Dr. Anthony Fletcher, the 20th president of the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) and an interventional cardiologist at CHI St. Vincent Cardiology and Medicine Clinic in Little Rock, Arkansas, said the month provides a necessary moment to pause and confront persistent disparities that remain embedded in the health care system.
“Every month should be Heart Month, and every month should be Black History Month,” Fletcher told The Washington Informer. “This is an opportunity to focus, to pause for a moment, and to think about the significance of both.”…