Babies born to black women are up to three times as likely to die in infancy as those born to women of other races

Also, blacks die of heart disease much more often than whites, and die younger, despite the availability of cheap prevention measures like weight loss, exercise, blood-pressure and cholesterol drugs, and aspirin. The same is true for strokes. High blood pressure is twice as common among blacks as whites, but the group with the least success in controlling it is Mexican-Americans. Blacks, Hispanics and American Indians, whether gay or straight, all have higher rates of new infection with the AIDS virus than whites, and the situation is getting worse for blacks and American Indians. Asians have the lowest rate. Teenage pregnancy is holding steady or falling for all ethnic groups, but is still three times as common among Hispanic girls as among white girls, and more than twice as common among black girls as among whites.