ArticleResearch on aging2016
Will the Latino Mortality Advantage Endure?
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- A Systematic Review of Physical Health Consequences and Acculturation Stress Among Latinx Individuals in the United States.Biological research for nursing · 2021Pooled it
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- Social, psychological, and cultural dimensions of cardiovascular health among Hispanic/Latino adults: A narrative review of findings from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Review
- Contribution of deaths of despair to the Hispanic mortality advantage in the USA by person, place and time: an ecological analysis of vital registration data.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Generational Disparities in Physically Strenuous and Hazardous Work Conditions.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2024Article
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Prostate Cancer 5-Year Survival: The Role of Health-Care Access and Disease Severity.Cancers · 2023Article
- The Most Vulnerable Hispanic Immigrants in New York City: Structural Racism and Gendered Differences in COVID-19 Deaths.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Paradox Lost? The Waning Health Advantage among the U.S. Hispanic Population.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- La vida en la frontera: protocol for a prospective study exploring stress and health resiliencies among Mexican-origin individuals living in a US-Mexico border community.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Preliminary Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccination Factors among Native and Foreign-Born Hispanic/Latine Adults Residing in South Florida, U.S.A.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Cancer Mortality Patterns by Birthplace and Generation Status of Mexican Latinos: The Multiethnic Cohort.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2022Article
- Asian, Latinx, or Multiracial? Assessing Filipinxs' Health Conditions and Outcomes by Aggregate Ethnic Category.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Article
- Mexican immigrant health advantage in metabolic syndrome? Examining the contributions of demographic, socioeconomic, and health behavior characteristics.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Recasting the Immigrant Health Paradox Through Intersections of Legal Status and Race.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2021Review
- Between- and within-Group Differences in Fruit and Vegetable Purchases, Consumption, and BMI among Hispanic Farmers' Market Shoppers Who Use SNAP.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Association of the COVID-19 Pandemic With Estimated Life Expectancy by Race/Ethnicity in the United States, 2020.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Reductions in 2020 US life expectancy due to COVID-19 and the disproportionate impact on the Black and Latino populations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- The life expectancy of older couples and surviving spouses.PloS one · 2021Article
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- Reductions in 2020 US life expectancy due to COVID-19 and the disproportionate impact on the Black and Latino populations.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
Persons of Mexican origin and some other Latino groups in the United States have experienced a survival advantage compared with their non-Latino White counterparts, a pattern known as the Latino, Hispanic, or epidemiological paradox. However, high rates of obesity and diabetes among Latinos relative to Whites and continued increases in the prevalence of these conditions suggest that this advantage may soon disappear. Other phenomena, including high rates of disability in the older Latino population compared with Whites, new evidence of health declines shortly after migration to the United States, increasing environmental stressors for immigrants, and high-risk values of inflammatory markers among Latinos compared with Whites support this prediction. One powerful counterargument, however, is substantially lower smoking-attributable mortality among Latinos. Still, it is questionable as to whether smoking behavior can counteract the many forces at play that may impede Latinos from experiencing future improvements in longevity on a par with Whites.
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