Abstract:
:Research suggests that greater ethnic density correlates with worse health among African Americans but better health among Hispanic Americans. These conflicting patterns may arise from Hispanic American samples being older than African American samples. We found that among 2367 Mexican American and 2790 African American participants older than 65 years, ethnic density predicted lower rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer, adjusting for covariates, showing that the health benefits of ethnic density apply to both minority communities.
journal_name
Am J Public Healthjournal_title
American journal of public healthauthors
Alvarez KJ,Levy BRdoi
10.2105/AJPH.2012.300787subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-12-01 00:00:00pages
2240-2issue
12eissn
0090-0036issn
1541-0048journal_volume
102pub_type
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