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Women's Health, Your Way

April 03, 2026

Ask & Search With Clara

Welcome to a new standard for women’s health answers.

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When it comes to our reproductive health, hindsight is often 20/20.

Black women are three times more likely to experience fibroids than white women. Can you speak to that a little bit? Racial disparities really do exist. By age 50, nearly two-thirds of women have experienced some sort of fibroids. Nearly a quarter of Black women between 18 and 30 have fibroids compared to only about 6% of white women. And by age 35, that number increases to 60%. Black women also tend to usually have larger fibroids and may have more symptomatology and also complications related to that.