Are Black Children More Prone to Developing Food Allergies

Health research indicators point out that race is helpful for understanding ethnic differences in disease and response to drugs.

Genetic differences have arisen among people living on different continents and that race, referring to geographically based ancestry, is a valid way of categorizing these differences.

It has long been known that some diseases are not evenly distributed.

For example, a common mutation that causes sickle cell anemia is prevalent among Africans and is thought to have originated among Bantu-speakers; lactose intolerance, the loss of the ability to digest lactose after weaning, is the default condition of humankind but among Northern Europeans the ability is often retained into adulthood. Other studies have linked African American ethnicity to a higher risk of asthma.