black Americans

Adults who develop one autoimmune form of diabetes are often misdiagnosed with Type 2. Those wrong diagnoses make it harder to get the appropriate medications and technology to manage blood sugar.

To be Black in America is to struggle with health problems from birth to death. The reasons are myriad. The Associated Press spent a year exploring this legacy of racism in a series of stories.

People can experience symptoms of PTSD after being exposed to videos with violence and death. Those symptoms can show up immediately or weeks later.

The CDC says the death rate for black Americans fell 25 percent over 17 years and was especially dramatic for those 65 and older. But young black people are still dying earlier than white Americans.