AIDS mortality among Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics in New York City, 1981-1987.
Analysis of AIDS mortality data for New York City for 1981-1987 reveals that Puerto Ricans represent the racial/ethnic group most severely affected by this city's AIDS epidemic. Cumulative age-adjusted AIDS mortality rates among Puerto Rico-born males are significantly higher (362 per 100,000) than among blacks (267), whites (182), or other Hispanic (217) males, and cumulative age-specific mortality rates for males are highest for the Puerto Rico-born in every adult age group. AIDS proportional mortality analysis indicates that in 1987 the proportion of all deaths due to AIDS was 10% among those Puerto Rican-born, 12% among other Hispanics (which includes at least 50% United States-born Puerto Ricans), 6% among blacks, and 2% among whites.
Menendez
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Department of Health Services, Lehman College CUNY, Bronx, New York 10468.
Drucker
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Vermund
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Castano
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Perez-Agosto
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Parga
F J
FJ
Blum
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000208:ethnology / Q000401:mortality*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009519:New York City / Q000453:epidemiology; D011647:Puerto Rico / Q000208:ethnology; D012737:Sex Factors