Disparities in education and access to insurance mean that heart failure hits Black American adults nearly 14 years earlier than it does White Americans, new research shows. Among Black patients, heart failure typically sets in at about 60 years of age, compared to 73.6 on average for White patients. The study, conducted by researchers at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, tracked the health records of more than 42,000 patients cared for at hundreds of hospitals nationwide. It revealed "striking