US Hispanics are a disadvantaged population that paradoxically has lower mortality rates
than non-Hispanic whites. We conducted a descriptive analysis of age-adjusted mortality …

PURPOSE: To investigate the association of nativity status, country of origin, and race with
all-cause mortality in Hispanic adults relative to non-Hispanic adults in the United States, we …

Objectives. We examined the “Hispanic paradox,” whereby persons of Hispanic origin
seemed to experience lower mortality than the non-Hispanic White population. This paradox …

Background Although nearly 112 million residents of the United States belong to a non-
white ethnic group, the literature about differences in health indicators across ethnic groups …

Hispanics make up a rapidly growing proportion of the US older adult population, so a firm
grasp of their mortality patterns is paramount for identifying racial/ethnic differences in life …

Introduction: National data on the epidemiology of cancer are commonly reported by broad
racial/ethnic categories, such as “Hispanic.” However, few studies have disaggregated …

Objectives. We examined the association between race/ethnicity and all-cause mortality risk
in US adults and whether this association differs by nativity status. Methods. We used Cox …

To investigate the possibility of a Hispanic mortality advantage, we conducted a systematic
review and meta-analysis of the published longitudinal literature reporting Hispanic …

Although those identifying as “Hispanic or Latino” experience lower adult mortality than the
more socioeconomically advantaged non-Hispanic white population, the ethnic category …

Objective We addressed three research questions:(1) Are there racial mortality disparities in
the adult Hispanic population that resemble those observed in the non-Hispanic population …