VIDEO: Racial, ethnic disparities in women’s cardiometabolic health must be reduced
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RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — In this Healio video exclusive, a speaker at the Cardiometabolic Health Congress Women’s Cardiometabolic Health and Wellness Masterclass discusses racial and ethnic disparities in cardiometabolic health.
Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPA, MPH, FAAP, FACP, FAHA, FTOS, obesity medicine physician-scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, spoke with Healio about highlights from her presentation on racial and ethnic disparities in cardiometabolic disease, particularly obesity.
Cardiometabolic disease rates are higher in Black and Hispanic/Latinx women compared with women of other races and ethnicities, and “correlates with ... obesity,” Stanford said.
Reducing these disparities “starts with us doing a better job of studying and capturing obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc, within these populations,” she said.
Watch the video for more.
Reference:
- Stanford FC. Ethnic and racial disparities in women’s cardiometabolic health: Challenges and perspectives. Presented at: CMHC Women’s Cardiometabolic Health and Wellness Masterclass; Sept. 9-11, 2022; Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
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