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Title: Latino Risk-adjusted Mortality in the Men Screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: Latinos are now the largest minority in the United States, but their distinctive health needs and mortality patternsremain poorly understood. Proportional hazards regressions were used to compare Latino versus White risk- andincome-adjusted mortality over 25 years follow-up from 5,846 Latino and 300,647 White men screened for theMultiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial. Men were aged 3557 years and residing in 14 states when screened in19731975. Data on coronary heart disease risk factors, self-reported race/ethnicity, and home addresses wereobtained at baseline; income was estimated by linking addresses to census data. Mortality follow-up through 1999was obtained using the National Death Index. The fully adjusted Latino/White hazard ratio for all-cause mortalitywas 0.82 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.77, 0.87), based on 1,085 Latino and 73,807 White deaths; this patternprevailed over time and across states (thus, likely across Latino subgroups). Hazard ratios were significantlygreater than one for stroke (hazard ratio 1.30, 95% CI: 1.01, 1.68), liver cancer (hazard ratio 2.02, 95%CI: 1.21, 3.37), and infection (hazard ratio 1.69, 95% CI: 1.24, 2.32). A substudy found only minor racial/ethnicdifferences in the quality of Social Security numbers, birth dates, soundex-adjusted names, and National DeathIndex searches. Results were not likely an artifact of return migration or incomplete mortality data.

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Authors: Eberly, Lynn E.; Smith, George D.; Thomas, Avis J.; Neaton, James D.

Periodical (Full): American Journal of Epidemiology

Issue: 6

Volume: 162

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Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Other, Race and Ethnicity

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