March 15, 2021 Black adults continue to have significantly higher rates of death due to diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke compared with white adults, and these disparities are magnified in rural areas of the United States, a contemporary analysis shows. Death related to hypertension and diabetes were found to be two to three times higher among Black adults compared with white adults in rural parts of the US, senior author Rishi Wadhera, MD (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA), told TCTMD. “What's really concerning is our finding that those striking racial disparities have not meaningfully improved over the last two decades,” he added.