title: [Mortality from cardiovascular diseases in immigrants residing in Madrid].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To estimate the mortality from cardiovascular diseases in immigrants residing in one of the regions of Spain with the highest immigration rate during the early years of the 21st century.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study included people aged 20 to 64 years of age residing in Madrid for the period 2000-2004. Mortality form cardiovascular disease in immigrants from different parts of the world was compared with the mortality in the native Spanish population. Mortality rates ratios adjusted for age, sex and per capita income in the area of residence were estimated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa and from South America showed, respectively, the highest and the lowest mortality rate ratio of cardiovascular diseases and ischemic heart disease. Immigrants from the region of Central America and the Caribbean showed the highest mortality rate ratio of cerebrovascular disease.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The pattern of cardiovascular disease mortality in immigrants residing in Madrid is quite similar to those found in studies made in other countries, and probably reflect the burden of disease in their places of origin.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, España. enriqueregidor@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Regidor
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ronda
authors.forename: Cruz
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pascual
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elisa Calle
authors.forename: Vicente
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Domínguez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014505:Urban Population; D055815:Young Adult