Native (US) born Hispanics have better mortality rates than foreign born Hispanics True False
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A fascinating subject of recent interest is the "Hispanic paradox": Census data "show" that coronary heart disease (CHD) has a lower prevalence in Hispanic people than in non-Hispanic whites (NHW) based on health interviews of representative samples of people from different ethnic groups from the U.S. population, although the risk-factor profile of Hispanics is generally worse (more hypertension, diabetes, and obesity in this group than in NHW). To study this further, researchers looked at a group of 1,000 Hispanic men ages 50–64 from several counties in Texas who were free of CHD in 1990 and followed them for 5 years. They found that 96 of the men had developed CHD (either fatal cases or nonfatal cases in which the men survived a heart attack). Given other surveys over the same time period among NHW in these counties, the researchers expected that the comparable rate of CHD for NHW would be 9%. Another important parameter in the epidemiology of CHD is the case-fatality rate (the proportion of people who die among those who have a heart attack). Among the 96 CHD cases ascertained among Hispanics, 50 were fatal. What is the expected proportion of Hispanic men who will be identified by health surveys as having a previous heart attack in the past 5 years (who are by definition survivors) if we assume that the proportion of men with more than one nonfatal heart attack is negligible?
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