There are other examples of racial differences in disease even among high SES groups. A comparison of a cohort of white physicians from Johns Hopkins University with a cohort of black physicians from Meharry Medical College revealed that there were large racial differences in health even in this group of highly educated professional males working in similar social contexts.49 This study found a higher rate of cardiovascular disease and an earlier onset of disease in the black than the white physicians. Incident diabetes and hypertension, for example, were twice as high in the black compared to the white physicians. Similarly, a study of men in multiple health professions found a higher incidence of prostate cancer in African-Americans than in whites.50
