ArticlePloS one2011
Ethnic inequalities in mortality: the case of Arab-Americans.
Article in PloS one, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- Massive underrepresentation of Arabs in genomic studies of common disease.Genome medicine · 2023Article
- Measurement and structural invariance of a neuropsychological battery among Middle Eastern/North African, Black, and White older adults.Neuropsychology · 2023Article
- Middle Eastern and North African Americans may not be perceived, nor perceive themselves, to be White.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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- Differences in health behaviors and health outcomes among non-Hispanic Whites and Arab Americans in a population-based survey in California.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Social Relations and Health: Comparing "Invisible" Arab Americans to Blacks and Whites.Society and mental health · 2018Article
- The Health of Arab Americans in the United States: An Updated Comprehensive Literature Review.Frontiers in public health · 2018Article
- Allergic sensitization in American children of Middle Eastern ethnicity at age 2.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2017Article
- Arab American Cognitive Aging: Opportunities for Advancing Research on Alzheimer's Disease Disparities.Innovation in aging · 2017Review
- Cervical Cancer Screening Among Arab Women in the United States: An Integrative Review.Oncology nursing forum · 2017Review
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough nearly 112 million residents of the United States belong to a non-white ethnic group, the literature about differences in health indicators across ethnic groups is limited almost exclusively to Hispanics. Features of the social experience of many ethnic groups including immigration, discrimination, and acculturation may plausibly influence mortality risk. We explored life expectancy and age-adjusted mortality risk of Arab-Americans (AAs), relative to non-Arab and non-Hispanic Whites in Michigan, the state with the largest per capita population of AAs in the US. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL
findingsData were collected about all deaths to AAs and non-Arab and non-Hispanic Whites in Michigan between 1990 and 2007, and year 2000 census data were collected for population denominators. We calculated life expectancy, age-adjusted all-cause, cause-specific, and age-specific mortality rates stratified by ethnicity and gender among AAs and non-Arab and non-Hispanic Whites. Among AAs, life expectancies among men and women were 2.0 and 1.4 years lower than among non-Arab and non-Hispanic White men and women, respectively. AA men had higher mortality than non-Arab and non-Hispanic White men due to infectious diseases, chronic diseases, and homicide. AA women had higher mortality than non-Arab and non-Hispanic White women due to chronic diseases. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Despite better education and higher income, AAs have higher age-adjusted mortality risk than non-Arab and non-Hispanic Whites, particularly due to chronic diseases. Features specific to AA culture may explain some of these findings.
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