PURPOSE The aims of this study were to delineate the epidemiology of gastric adenocarcinoma in Central America and contrast it with Hispanic-Latino populations in the USA. METHODS Published literature and Central America Ministry of Health databases were used as primary data sources, including national, population-based, and hospital-based registries. US data was obtained from the National Ca...

OBJECTIVE The prevalence of type 2 diabetes among Hispanic and Asian Americans is increasing. These groups are largely comprised of immigrants who may be undergoing behavioral and lifestyle changes associated with development of diabetes. We studied the association between acculturation and diabetes in a population sample of 708 Mexican-origin Hispanics, 547 non-Mexican-origin Hispanics, and 73...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of having regular healthcare providers and diabetes self-management education (DSME) on the receipt of diabetes preventive care among all groups and by race/ethnicity. DATA SOURCE The 2004 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. METHODS Logistic regression analyses were performed for the full sample and separately for Blacks, Hispanics, and Whites. RES...

OBJECTIVE African Americans (AAs) and Hispanics have higher diabetes and end-stage renal disease but similar or lower early chronic kidney disease (CKD) compared with whites. Inflammation plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of diabetes-related CKD. We postulated that in contrast to the general population, AAs and Hispanics have a higher prevalence of early diabetic CKD and systemic inflam...

Hispanics in the U.S. Southwest have genetic ancestry from Europeans and from American Indians, two groups with markedly different breast cancer incidence rates. Genetic admixture may therefore bias estimates of associations between candidate cancer susceptibility genes and breast cancer in Hispanics. We estimated genetic admixture using 15 ancestry-informative markers for 1,239 Hispanics and 2...

Table 1. Percentage of Hispanic Residents by SAD State (ranked from highest to lowest) SAD State/District Number of Hispanic Residents Percent of Total State Population District of Columbia 50,711 8.7% Georgia 702,087 7.5% North Carolina 598,562 6.7% Delaware 54,319 6.3% Virginia 487,057 6.3% Maryland 340,026 6.0% South Carolina 151,248 3.5% West Virginia 16,490 0.9% South Atlantic Division 2,4...

In recent years, Hispanics/Latinos have become the largest immigrant group in the United States. Hispanics/Latinos represent the fastest growing minority group in the United States and have now surpassed 50 million, accounting for approximately 1 of 6 people living in the United States according to the most recent census data. The term ‘‘Latino or Hispanic’’ is applied to a very heterogeneous g...