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ArticleAmerican journal of public health2015

Cause-of-death disparities in the African diaspora: exploring differences among shared-heritage populations.

Ian R Hambleton, Selvi Jeyaseelan, Christina Howitt, Natasha Sobers-Grannum, Anselm J Hennis, Rainford J Wilks, E Nigel Harris, Marlene MacLeish, Louis W Sullivan, US Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group

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Article in American journal of public health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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10 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Ian R HambletonIan R. Hambleton, Christina Howitt, and Anselm J. Hennis are with the Chronic Disease Research Centre, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados. Selvi Jeyaseelan and Natasha Sobers-Grannum are with the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Rainford J. Wilks is with the Epidemiology Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. E. Nigel Harris is with the University of the West Indies, Kingston. Marlene MacLeish and Louis W. Sullivan are with the Sullivan Alliance, Alexandria, Virginia.
Selvi Jeyaseelan
Christina Howitt
Natasha Sobers-Grannum
Anselm J Hennis
Rainford J Wilks
E Nigel Harris
Marlene MacLeish
Louis W Sullivan
US Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research Group
University of the West Indies System · JM

Funding

The U.S.A-Caribbean Alliance for Health Disparities Research (USACAHDR)U24MD006959 · NIMHD · SULLIVAN ALLIANCE/TRANSFORM/HLTH/PROFESS · PI SULLIVAN, LOUIS W. · 2011 to 2015
$4.6M
NIMHD NIH HHS U24 MD006959NIMHD NIH HHS U24MD006959
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesWe investigated changes in life expectancy (LE) and cause-specific mortality over time, directly comparing African-descent populations in the United States and the Caribbean.

methodsWe compared LE at birth and cause-specific mortality in 6 disease groups between Caribbean countries with a majority (> 90%) African-descent population and US African Americans.

resultsThe LE improvement among African Americans exceeded that of Afro-Caribbeans so that the LE gap, which favored the Caribbean population by 1.5 years in 1990, had been reversed by 2009. This relative improvement among African Americans was mainly the result of the improving mortality experience of African American men. Between 2000 and 2009, Caribbean mortality rates in 5 of the 6 disease groups increased relative to those of African Americans. By 2009, mortality from cerebrovascular diseases, cancers, and diabetes was higher in Afro-Caribbeans relative to African Americans, with a diabetes mortality rate twice that of African Americans and 4 times that of White Americans.

conclusionsThe Caribbean community made important mortality reductions between 2000 and 2009, but this progress fell short of African American health improvements in the same period, especially among men.

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Cause of DeathAfricaAgedAged, 80 and overCaribbean RegionFemaleHealth Status DisparitiesHumansLife ExpectancyMaleRisk FactorsUnited States

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PMID25905849
PMCPMC4455496
OpenAlexW2066694341

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