Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is on a mission to tackle one of the most stubborn health problems in the country: Chronic disease in the African American community.
After Adams woke up with severe vision loss one day in 2016, he learned that he was one of the nearly 5 million Black people living with diabet.
African Americans are heavier and sicker than any Other group in the U.
S., with nearly half of all Black adults suffering from some form of cardiovascular disease.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is on a mission to tackle one of the most stubborn health problems in the country: Chronic disease in the African American community