Mortality rates and risk factors for coronary disease in black as compared with white men and women
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Black and white American men have similar death rates from coronary heart disease is the same for black and white Americans. A 30-year study of 2,181 people conducted in the southeastern United States surveyed blood pressure, blood cholesterol, level of education, diabetes status, and whether or not participants were smokers. Causes of death were coded according to the International Classification of Diseases manual. No women, white or black, were recorded as dying from heart disease between the ages of 35 and 44. When age was taken into account and all causes of death were evaluated, black women had a higher mortality rate than white women, but black men did not have a higher rate than white men. Variables associated with death from causes other than coronary heart disease were high cholesterol levels, high systolic blood pressure, diabetes and smoking. These variables were significant for all groups.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 1993
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The epidemiology of tuberculosis among foreign-born persons in the United States, 1986 to 1993
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A concerted effort to improve tuberculosis screening programs in Latin America and Southeast Asia and provide tuberculosis treatment to foreign-born immigrants in the US may reduce the incidence of the disease in the US. The incidence of tuberculosis rose in the late 1980's as did the influx of foreign-born immigrants. Researchers used records from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and census data to document the incidence of tuberculosis in foreign-born immigrants. The percentage of patients treated for tuberculosis who were foreign-born increased from 22% in 1986 to 30% in 1993. Between 1990 and 1993, the incidence of tuberculosis in foreign-born immigrants rose to 33.6 per 100,000 people, compared to an incidence of 8.1 per 100,000 people in native-born Americans. Immigrants from Mexico, the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Cambodia and Laos had the highest rates of tuberculosis.
Publication Name: The New England Journal of Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0028-4793
Year: 1995
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