Racial Differences in Chronic Disease One of the problems in this debate is that we are trying to relate two poorly defined entities. The concept that racial differences in chronic disease are due to genetic differences among races has been repeatedly challenged. It is too complex and does not fit this outdated idea.
Race is real.
Rather than being based on biology, it is a social and political process that provides insights into how we read deeper meaning into phenotypes. Racialization and racism come about because, in a racialized culture, we read meaning into skin color and other phenotypic variants. The apportionment of human diversity. Am J Public Health. Medscape Article Remember Ann is NOT A Doctor and has NO medical training.