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221 (30%)
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In an effort t9 bring awareness 0 the community, approximately 400 people from across the state
parucipa ed In the third annual AIDS walk and rally Saturday, July 10. The walk and rally, sponsored
by The ictuqan Womens AIDS Commi ee, began at Detro' s Hart Plaza and ended at Belle Isle with
a rally, lunch and a host of guest soeakers
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD
ATH P i�ngint t
tub • tiny nn f vems and arteri
o pale they're alm t translucent are
bombarded with hemical while a
macron rneasur their rca iors t
each JOlt. How thi living human ti -
u reacts could finally tell if th cell
stru ture of Bl k men and women
makes them m t ceptibl to heart
di e.
"We think the common denomina
tor' th bl d v el itself," said Or.
Randall Tackett the University of
Georgia, who i conducting the tudy.
"But no one h really looked at blood
v el ... to explain the difference
between Bla k and white patients."
Heart disease is the nation' num
ber 'One killer, causing a ut hal a
million deaths each year.
Blac men have a 9 percent
higher rate of death from cardiov u-
lar di e than white m n. Th n k I
even higher for Black women per-
cent over white women.
FH
T di -
much ter than whit . Even
minor hardening of the arteri can be
fatal and Blacks are more pron to
debilitating hi h blood pure.
D to don't know why.
In worn n, th think h rm n
certainly playa role. And they uspect
om of th differe ults from
higher po erty amon BI
Am nears.
But th . e th
ea e
coronary arteri . They almo t alway
have pi left over.
So whenever th medical college
hedul a byp , duate tudent
D tan Barber mak th two-hour
d nve to Au tao H wai in the op
erating room for th lefto er ti ue,
p it ina oler and rae b k to
Athers .
Barber and T kett h ve only
hou before th ti ue dies. They cut
th veins and arten Into little rings
and put each piece into water heated
to body temperature and inf ed with
oxy en. Then h ring i injected
With a different ub tan ,from th
ch rrncal th body produ under
tr to heart dru . A mac hi ne meas-
ures whether the mooth muscleofth
ti u c nt;a . r duat . plus any
oth r cell rca tro .
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