Some snoring indicates sleep apnea, where breathing actually stops, causing heart damage and preventing deep sleep. Men who snore are at 23 times greater risk of having a heart attack. Sleep apnea is three times more prevalent in men than in women. While gender is a factor in health, experts say the two major predictors of poor health are poverty and lack of education. In the United States, those conditions are disproportionately higher among African Americans and Hispanics.
Blacks die twice as often from strokes as whites do.
Blacks and Hispanics get it twice as often as whites. Hispanics get it twice as often as whites. Hispanics get it twice as often as whites. At all stages, black women are more likely than white women to be untreated. All rights reserved.