Ethnic differences in health: Genetics and environment (diet and access to care) both contribute to this.

• Cardiovascular Disease: Heart disease is the leading cause of death for all racial and ethnic groups in the United States. In 1998, rates of death from cardiovascular disease were about 30 percent higher among African American adults than among white adults.
  
  
• Diabetes: The prevalence  is 70 percent higher among African Americans and nearly 100 percent higher among Hispanics than among whites. The prevalence of diabetes among American Indians and Alaska Natives is more than twice that of the total population, and the Pimas Indians of Arizona have the highest known prevalence of diabetes in the world.
  
  
• HIV/AIDS: Although African Americans and Hispanics represented only 25 percent of the U.S. population in 1999, they accounted for roughly 55 percent of adult AIDS cases and 82 percent of pediatric AIDS cases.
  
  
• Immunizations: In 1999, Hispanics and African Americans aged 65 years and older were less likely than whites to report having received influenza and pneumococcal vaccines.
  
  
• Infant Mortality: African American, American Indian, and Puerto Rican infants have higher death rates than white infants. In 1998, the death rate among African American infants was 2.3 times greater than that among white infants.

Other disease ssuch as Sarcoidosis, Thallassemias etc ae discussed in text of the rest of the site.