Obesity is a major risk factor for hypertension 75 - people more than 20% over their ideal body weight have a two- to threefold higher risk of becoming hypertensive. 28 Obesity is also an epidemic in the black community, especially among females 2, 76 and urban blacks. 2 In a cross-sectional study by Sever et al., 29 BP correlated positively with BMI.. As black people, and most people who have taken more than a glance at their black friends' hands will know, our palms aren't the same colour as the rest of our skin.
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In the U.S., melanoma is 30 times more common among white people than Black people. In Black people, melanoma usually develops in parts of the body that are not exposed to the sun, such as the.. Black people are far less likely to develop melanoma than non-Hispanic White people (at a rate of 1 per 100,000 compared to 30 per 100,000) due to the protection that melanin, the body's natural skin pigment, provides from damaging ultraviolet rays. However, Black people who do develop the cancer have a much lower five-year survival rate.
