Nnenna Health is a chronic disease management platform built specifically for Black Americans. Hypertension. Diabetes. Cardiovascular disease. Conditions that are killing us at rates the healthcare system has failed to address. We built something that actually does.
of Black adults have hypertension. The highest rate in the world.
more likely to die from diabetes than white Americans
higher maternal mortality rate for Black women
shorter life expectancy, driven by preventable conditions
Black Americans are living with hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease at rates that reflect a system failure — not a personal one. Nnenna Health is a chronic disease management platform that addresses the physical conditions driving those numbers.
58% of Black adults have high blood pressure, the highest rate in the world. We build plans that address the real drivers: diet, movement, sleep, and the stress load that raises blood pressure as surely as salt does.
Black Americans are 50% more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes and twice as likely to die from it. Sustainable management through habits that fit your actual life, not a program built for someone else.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for Black Americans. We focus on the controllable factors: blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, movement, and sleep. Before a crisis forces the conversation.
Poor sleep raises blood pressure, destabilizes blood sugar, and accelerates cardiovascular risk. It is not a lifestyle preference. It is a clinical factor and we treat it like one.
Black women face a 3× maternal mortality rate, higher rates of hypertension during pregnancy, and systemic dismissal of their symptoms. We center their physical health and their voice.
The best time to manage hypertension and diabetes is before they become emergencies. We help members build the healthcare relationship that makes prevention possible, on their own terms.
Ten questions about your real life. A personalized wellness plan. Then four weeks of warm, personal email check-ins to help you follow through.
After your plan, you’ll get a personal email every week for four weeks — warm, specific, and written for where you are in the journey.
“Healthcare that knows where you come from.”
This is not a statistic problem. It’s a human problem. And it’s happening to people we love.
Black Americans are not dying at higher rates from heart disease, diabetes, and stroke because of something inherent to who they are. They are dying because of a system built for someone else — studied on someone else, designed for someone else, and delivered to us as if our bodies, our stress, and our lives were the same.
The highest rate of any group in the world. And only 39% of those with it have it under control. Not because of choices, but because of access, trust, and a system that doesn’t communicate in our language.
Black Americans are hospitalized for hypertension at 5.3 times the rate of white Americans. Behind that number: delayed diagnoses, providers who didn’t listen, and a healthcare system they had every reason not to trust.
50% more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes. Twice as likely to die from it. The conditions that allow diabetes to go unmanaged, like stress load and healthcare avoidance, are systemic. Not personal.
69.9 deaths per 100,000 for Black women. Three times the white rate. Black women with college degrees die in childbirth at higher rates than white women without high school diplomas. This is not about education. It’s about how Black women are seen.
Black Americans carry a measurably higher chronic stress burden due to discrimination, economic pressure, and systemic inequity. Chronic stress is a direct cardiovascular risk factor. It elevates blood pressure and accelerates heart disease as reliably as smoking or a poor diet.
The average Black American lives 4.4 fewer years. Behind that: 1.63 million excess deaths and 80 million years of life lost over two decades. Not an abstraction. Real people. Real families.
54% of Black adults reported experiencing discrimination in daily life in the past year. This matters clinically — not psychologically. Chronic stress elevates cortisol, constricts blood vessels, raises blood pressure, and accelerates cardiovascular disease. The physiological mechanism is well-documented.
A chronic disease management program that ignores this is leaving a major driver of hypertension untreated. Nnenna Health doesn’t ignore it. We address it as the cardiovascular risk factor it is.
A free, personalized plan — followed by four weeks of personal check-ins. Finally, in hands that understand it.
A free assessment, a personalized chronic disease management plan, and four weeks of follow-up — all built for how Black Americans actually live.
Your age range, stress, sleep, how you eat, how you feel about the healthcare system. Real questions about your real life. Takes 4 minutes.
Claude generates a 4-week plan focused on your blood pressure, blood sugar, cardiovascular risk, and sleep. Specific, measurable weekly actions. Built for your life, not a clinical trial.
Four personal emails, one each week. Checking in on how you’re sleeping, what’s stressing you, what’s working. Warm. Specific. Yours.
Create an account to save your plan, log wellness check-ins, and update your assessment as you grow. Your data, your story.
Each one is personalized to your answers and where you are in your journey. Preview all four below.
A 4-week personalized wellness plan generated by Claude (Anthropic’s AI), based on your answers to 10 lifestyle questions. Focused on blood pressure, blood sugar, cardiovascular risk, and the lifestyle factors that drive them.
Stress and sleep are addressed as physiological risk factors, because that’s what they are. Chronic stress raises blood pressure. Poor sleep destabilizes blood sugar. These are cardiovascular issues, not lifestyle preferences.
It acknowledges distrust of the healthcare system honestly and offers a path that doesn’t require trust you haven’t earned yet.
Ten questions about your real life. A personalized wellness plan targeting the physical conditions that matter most: blood pressure, blood sugar, cardiovascular risk, and sleep. Then four weeks of personal email check-ins.
No PHI collected. Takes about 4 minutes.
Always free
Your plan, your 4 weeks of check-ins, your dashboard. Free. No credit card, no trial, no catch.
Completely confidential
We never collect medical records or insurance information. Your answers stay yours. We do not sell data.
Built because we care
We built this because the data made us angry and the gap in care is personal. Not because of a business opportunity.
This is a wellness guide, not medical advice. For clinical concerns, please consult a healthcare provider.
These are not abstractions. Each one represents a gap in care that has been documented, measured, and largely unaddressed.
Have hypertension. The highest rate of any racial group in the world.
Black Americans are hospitalized for hypertension at 5.3× the rate of white Americans.
Only 39% of Black adults with hypertension have it under control, vs. 49% of white adults.
more likely to be diagnosed
as likely to die from it
Higher rates of insulin resistance linked to chronic stress-driven cortisol elevation
Food environment disparities in majority-Black zip codes reduce access to fresh produce
Later-stage diagnosis due to healthcare avoidance, driven by documented mistreatment
3× higher rates of kidney failure — the most common end-stage complication
Black women die in childbirth at 3× the rate of white women, regardless of income or education.
The average Black American lives 4.4 fewer years, driven by preventable chronic disease.
of Black adults reported discrimination in daily life last year — with documented cardiovascular effects.
Less than 6 hours raises 24-hour average blood pressure by 3–5 mmHg — equivalent to gaining 10 lbs.
With hypertension on both sides of your family, your lifetime risk exceeds 90%. Manageable — if you start before a crisis.
"Chronic stress is not a personality trait. It is a physiological state — and it is raising blood pressure, disrupting insulin sensitivity, and shortening lives."
The clinical basis for Nnenna Health
Black Americans are twice as likely to have a stroke as white Americans, and 40% more likely to die from one.
When a stroke occurs, Black Americans are significantly less likely to survive — driven by delayed care and uncontrolled BP.
Black Americans experience strokes an average of 10 years earlier than white Americans. This is almost entirely driven by uncontrolled hypertension.
higher rate of kidney failure than white Americans
more likely to develop end-stage renal disease
Uncontrolled high blood pressure is the second leading cause of kidney failure — after diabetes
High blood pressure damages the small blood vessels in kidneys, reducing their ability to filter waste
Managing blood pressure reduces kidney disease progression by 30–40% — the same intervention, the same platform
By the time kidney failure is diagnosed, hypertension and diabetes have typically been unmanaged for a decade
57% of Black women are classified as obese, the highest rate of any demographic group in the United States.
38% of Black men are classified as obese, significantly above the national average of 30%.
Chronic stress elevates cortisol which drives fat storage. Poor sleep compounds it. Food deserts limit options. These are structural conditions, not individual choices.
higher prostate cancer fatality rate for Black men
higher breast cancer mortality for Black women despite similar diagnosis rates
Later-stage diagnosis due to reduced access to preventive screening and healthcare avoidance
Provider bias — Black patients' pain and symptoms are documented as systematically under-treated
Obesity and chronic inflammation — both higher in Black Americans — are documented cancer risk factors
Lower rates of clinical trial participation means treatments are less optimized for Black patients
Black children are 3 times more likely to die from asthma than white children, a condition that is almost entirely preventable with proper management.
Black adults are twice as likely to be hospitalized for asthma — driven by housing quality, environmental pollution, and under-prescription of maintenance medication.
Live in areas with poor air quality — a direct driver of asthma severity. Environmental injustice is a health disparity.
A free, personalized chronic disease management plan built around your specific risk profile.
58% of Black adults have hypertension. Black women die in childbirth at three times the rate of white women. The life expectancy gap is 4.4 years. These are not abstractions. These are our parents, our grandparents, our community. And the healthcare system has had decades to fix it.
We did not build Nnenna Health to get rich. We built it because Black Americans are dying from conditions that are manageable, at rates that are unacceptable, and nobody was building the tool that actually addresses the real barriers — trust, access, and a healthcare system that was not designed with us in mind.
Your health plan is free. Your four weeks of check-ins are free. Your dashboard is free. No credit card. No trial that converts. No hidden tier you have to pay to unlock. Free.
We keep the lights on through employer partnerships — companies that pay to offer Nnenna Health as a benefit to their workforce. That model lets the individual experience stay completely free, forever.
Full plan. Full check-in series. Full dashboard. No exceptions.
Your answers stay yours. We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with anyone.
Ten questions. No account required to start. No insurance information. No medical records.
Everyone on this team has skin in the game. Not metaphorically. Our families carry these diagnoses. We went to HBCUs. We understand what it means to navigate a healthcare system that was not built for us.
We are not an outside vendor looking at Black health from a distance. We are members of this community who looked at the data and decided someone had to build the right tool.
Our clinical team brings pharmacy and healthcare expertise specifically focused on chronic disease management in Black populations. Every protocol is evidence-based.
Black health professionals providing personal check-ins to members. Real people, not automated messages. Coming July 2026.
Ten questions. A personalized plan. Four weeks of check-ins. Free, confidential, and built for you.
No credit card. No insurance information. No catch.
Last updated: January 2025
Nnenna Health provides a wellness assessment tool and AI-powered personalized wellness plan generation service. We are not a healthcare provider, medical practice, or clinical service. Nothing on this platform constitutes medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
We collect wellness-tier data only: age range, general lifestyle habits, self-reported stress and sleep, family history of conditions (not diagnoses), mental and emotional wellness ratings, and self-rated wellness scores. We do not collect blood pressure readings, medications, diagnoses, or any information your doctor would put in a chart.
Every plan generated by Nnenna Health is a wellness guide, not medical advice. Weekly email check-ins are wellness support communications, not clinical care. If you have clinical concerns, please consult a licensed healthcare provider.
Your data is used to generate your personal wellness plan and email series, and in aggregate, de-identified form to improve our platform. We will never sell your personal information.
Your wellness plan and email content are generated using Claude, an AI system developed by Anthropic. This content is personalized based on your answers but is not reviewed by a licensed clinician before delivery. Always consult a healthcare provider for clinical concerns.
Last updated: January 2025
When you use the free plan tool: age range, lifestyle answers (diet, activity, stress, sleep, mental wellbeing), family health history (self-reported tendencies, not diagnoses), and your goals and motivations. When you create an account: email address, name, and the above data. On return visits: updated assessment responses and self-rated wellness scores.
To generate your personalized wellness plan and weekly email series. To track your wellness check-ins over time. In aggregate, de-identified form to understand platform effectiveness. We do not sell your data.
Your wellness assessment answers are sent to Anthropic's Claude API to generate your personalized plan. This is subject to Anthropic's privacy policy. We do not share your name or email with Anthropic.
You may request deletion of your account and all associated data at any time by emailing [email protected].