Chart is from PDF at the bottom of this page
Note: Vertical axis of the next chart is not linear
See also Vitamin D Life
- Breast cancer worse for blacks – Sept 2011
- All items in category Breast Cancer and Vitamin D 223 items
- Overview Breast Cancer and Vitamin D
- Breast Cancer in African-American Women 2009 article by same author
- All items in Genetics and Vitamin D 266 items
- Hypothesis – Black births are much riskier due to lack of vitamin D – April 2011 which has the following
- Statistics for African-American vs white births in the US:
- 2X more likely to be premature
- 2X more likely for infant to die in first year – African-American medical risks has chart
- 4X higher maternal mortality rate
- 1.25X more cesarean delivery
- Statistics for African-American vs white births in the US:
- Overview Dark Skin and Vitamin D which contains the following
- The health disparity for Blacks is almost the same as for a white person having a low level of vitamin D
| Black Disparity | 16 vs 26 ng/ml | |
| breast cancer | 1.34 | 1.26 |
| colorectal cancer | 1.43 | 1.44 |
| cardiovascular disease | 1.29 | 1.27 |
| all-cause mortality | 1.26 | 1.26 |