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Black women over age 55 is diabetic. Some 2.7 million or 11.4% of all African Americans over age 20 have diabetes--more troubling is that one-third of them don't know it. African Americans are 1.6 times more likely to have diabetes than whites, reports the American Diabetes Association. African Americans with diabetes are at increased risk for blindness, kidney disease, and amputations. The most serious consequences of diabetes are heart disease and stroke. Diabetes, the fifth deadliest disease in the U.S., has no cure.