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For a long time, the true impact of cardiovascular diseases on African-Americans was masked by myths about the disease. The truth is African-Americans have the highest overall coronary disease mortality rate in the United States, says Luther T. Clark, chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and professor of Clinical Medicine at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.
Clark, who also heads Cardiology Services at Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, says he is bent on dispelling the myths. "I feel privileged to...