10% Of All Black Women Suffer From This

There are so many diseases that are higher in Black women than any other ethnicity. Up to 10 percent or more of adult women under 49 years suffer from a number of health issues like heart diseases and fibroids. But there’s one issue that is being vastly overlooked and it’s sneaking up on too many Black women for us to ignore. It’s iron deficiency anemia. Hispanic-American and Black-American women have double the prevalence of anemia compared to Caucasian women. The risk for anemia in adolescent girls is about three percent. Anemia is generally mild in young women, however, and is more likely to occur with one or more of the following conditions: Heavy menstruation for longer than five days Abnormal uterine bleeding, such as from fibroids Pregnancy. About 20 percent of women in industrialized countries have iron deficiency during pregnancy. Multiple pregnancies and births significantly increase the risk. Anemia develops when you don’t have enough robust, healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout your body. The blood cells may lack enough hemoglobin, the protein that gives blood its red color. Anemia affects one in 10 teen girls and women. It also develops in men and children and is linked...