Latinos have a higher, not lower, prevalence of cardiovascular disease than non-Hispanic white people, a recent study found.
calls into question a notion called the Latino Epidemiological Paradox: that Hispanics have better health outcomes than non-Hispanic white people.
"We decided to look at this data to show the Latino paradox ... We picked heart disease because it’s a major killer and that’s one of the areas where the Latino paradox has been talked about a lot," said, dean of clinical and translational science at the University of Miami Health System."And it turns out, we found the opposite. Latinos have higher rates of heart disease than whites. For men, it’s even slightly higher than for Blacks.
The new study, published this month in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, relies on a national dataset called"All of Us," which is one of the U.S.' largest sources of biomedical data. It includes health data from diverse participants from across the country, including over 40,000 Latinos. Carrasquillo is the principal investigator for the All of Us Research Program at the University of Miami."I’ve been teaching about the Latino paradox for 30 years.
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