Diabetes-related mortality among Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans in the United States

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 381-387

  Smith, Chrystal A S ^a   Barnett, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Epidemiology; Health status indicators; Hispanic Americans; Mortality; Socioeconomic factors; Statistics and numerical data

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES; ADULT; AGE; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CUBA; GREATER ANTILLES; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PUERTO RICO; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CUBA; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; PUERTO RICO; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33645301605     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: 16805348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1020-49892005001000001     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. United States of America. United States Bureau of the Census: Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: Census 2000 Brief. [Internet site]. Available from http://www.census. gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-1.pdf. Accessed 15 October 2004.
2. Trueba ET. Latinos unidos: from cultural diversity to the politics of solidarity. Lanham (MD): Rowman & Littlefield; 1999.
3. Peters KD, Kochanek KD, Murphy SL. Deaths: final data for 1996. Natl Vital Stat Rep. 1998; 47(9):1-100.
4. Hoyert DL, Kochanek KD, Murphy SL. Deaths: final data for 1997. Natl Vital Stat Rep. 1999; 47(19):1-104.
5. Murphy SL. Deaths: final data for 1998. Natl Vital Stat Rep. 2000; 48(11):1-105.
6. Anderson RN. Deaths: leading causes for 1999. Natl Vital Stat Rep. 2001;49(11):1-87.
7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Diabetes public health resource [Internet site]. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/general. htm#what. Accessed 20 October 2004.
8. United States of America, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Diabetes public health resource [Internet site]. Available from http://www.cdc. gov/diabetes/pubs/estimates.htm#Deaths. Accessed 20 October 2004.
9. United States of America, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevalence of diabetes among Hispanics - Selected areas, 1998-2002. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004; 53(40):941-4.
10. United States of America, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Self-reported prevalence of diabetes among Hispanics - United States, 1994-1997. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1999;48(1):8-12.
11. Luchsinger, AJ. Diabetes. In: Aguirre-Molina M, Molina CW, Zambrana RE, eds. Health issues in the Latino community. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 2001. Pp. 277-300.
12. Hunt KJ, Williams K, Resendez RG, Hazuda HP, Haffner SM, Stern MP. All-cause and cardiovascular mortality among diabetic participants in the San Antonio Heart Study: Evidence against the "Hispanic Paradox." Diabetes Care. 2002;25(9):1557-63.
13. Rosenwaike I. Mortality differentials among persons born in Cuba, Mexico, and Puerto Rico residing in the United States, 1979-81. Am J Public Health. 1987;77(5): 603-6.
14. Hajat A, Lucas JB, Kington R. Health outcomes among Hispanic subgroups: data from the national health interview survey, 1992-1995. Adv Data Vital Health Stat. 2000;310:1-14.
15. Hummer R, Rogers, RG, Amir SH, Forbes D, Frisbie, WP. Adult mortality differentials among hispanic subgroups and non-Hispanic whites. Soc Sci Q. 2000; 81(1):458-76.
16. Sorlie PD, Backlund E, Johnson NJ, Rogat E. Mortality of Hispanic status in the United States. JAMA. 1993;270(20):2464-8.
17. United States Bureau of the Census: persons of Hispanic origin in the United States: 1990 Census of Population. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing; 1993.
18. United States Bureau of the Census: American fact finder: Census 2000 summary file 2. [Internet site]. Available from http://factfinder. census.gov/servlet/DatasetMainPage Servlet?_ds_name=DEC_2000_SF2_U&_ program=DEC&_lang=en. Accessed 15 October 2004.
19. United States of America, National Center for Health Statistics: National Vital Statistics System. [Internet site]. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/ nchs/about/major/dvs/mort data.htm. Accessed 18 October 2004.
20. Practice Management Information Corporation. ICD-9-CM International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification, 2005; 2004.
21. Anonymous. Mortality health disparities experienced by Hispanics-United States. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2004;53(40): 935-7.
22. Williams DR, Neighbors HW, Jackson JS. Racial/ethnic discrimination and health: findings from community studies. Am J Public Health. 2003;93:200-8.
23. Carter-Pokras O, Zambrana RE. Latino health status. In: Aguirre-Molina M, Molina CW, Zambrana RE, eds. Health issues in the Latino community. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 2001. Pp. 23-54.
24. United States of America, National Cancer Institute: Director's Corner. [Internet site]. Available from http://www.nci.nih.gov/directorscorner/ directorsupdate-01-20-2004. Accessed 18 October 2004.
25. Bild DE, Stevenson JM. Frequency of recording of diabetes on US death certificates: analysis of the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey. J Clin Epidemiol. 1992;45(3):275-81.
26. Ochi JW, Melton LJ, Palumbo PJ, Chu-Pin C. A population-based study of diabetes mortality. Diabetes Care. 1985;8:224-9.
27. Rosenburg HM, Mauer JD, Sorlie P, Johnson NJ. Quality of death rates by race and Hispanic origin: a summary of current research, 1999. Vital Health Stat. 1999;2(128):1-20.
28. Sorlie PD, Rogot E, Johnson NJ. Validity of demographic characteristics on the death certificate. Epidemiology. 1992;3(2):181-4.
29. Rogot E, Sorlie PD, Johnson NJ, Schmitt C. A mortality study of 1.3 million persons by demographic, social and economic factors: 1979-1985 follow-up. Bethesda (MD): National Institutes of Health; 1992. (NIH publication 92-3297).
30. Hogan H. The 1990 Post-enumeration survey: operations and results. J Am Stat Assoc. 1993; 88(423):1047-60.