Overview and Perspectives: Cardiovascular Disease in Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the Era of COVID-19

Primordial prevention: Reducing consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in racial/ethnic populations

“…The pandemic was a sentinel event , revealing glaring health disparities caused by preventable deep-rooted health care failures, especially fueled by the racial/ethnic disparities in morbidity and mortality related to cardiometabolic conditions [15] , [102] . In the U.S., NHB populations, with limited or absent primordial prevention, compared to other racial/ethnic populations, have consistently demonstrated a higher prevalence of hypertension, obesity, T2D and CVD [102] . This has been described as “…a toxic gumbo of CVD…profoundly diminishing overall African American life expectancy” [15] .…”