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| National Brotherhood of Cyclists�was formed in 2008. �The organization was inspired by the principals set forth by Marshall
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| Major Taylor |
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| A Few Important Health Care Statistics |
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African-American women have the highest death rates from heart disease, breast and lung cancer, stroke, and pregnancy among women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. Compared to the general U.S. population, American Indians are 400 percent more likely to contract tuberculosis, 291 percent more likely to suffer from diabetes, 67 percent more likely to have pneumonia or influenza, and 20 percent more likely to suffer from heart disease. Although African Americans represent only 12.7 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 26 percent of all asthma deaths. Age-adjusted asthma death rates are three times higher for African Americans than for whites Cancer is the leading cause of death for Asians and Pacific Islanders, and it is the second leading cause of death among every other racial and ethnic minority group in the United States. African-American men are 50 percent more likely to suffer from prostate cancer than white men, and they are more than twice as likely as white men to die as a result of the cancer. Vietnamese-American women have the highest age-adjusted rate of cervical cancer (43 per 100,000), more than five times the rate of non-Hispanic whites (7.5 per 100,000) Lung cancer kills more African Americans and American Indians/Alaska Natives than any other type of cancer rates of death from heart disease were 30 percent higher among African Americans than among whites death rates from stroke were 41 percent higher among African Americans than among whites American Indians are more than twice as likely to suffer from diabetes as whites Although they made up only 26 percent of the U.S. population in 2001, African Americans and Latinos accounted for 67 percent of newly reported AIDS cases Only 12 percent of white, non-Hispanic children are in less than very good or excellent health, compared to 25 percent of African-American children and 26 percent of Hispanic children African-American children are more than three times as likely as children of other races to develop sleep-disordered breathing. |
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