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For: EFE Updated 10 Feb 2022, 19: 34 pm EST
Latino immigrants, especially those who are not US citizens, face a much higher risk of dying than their peers born in the United States, according to a study revealed by the University of Southern California (USC).
The study evaluated mortality differences by citizenship status among Latino young adults from 18 to 44 years living in the United States. Researchers looked at mortality rates and health risk factors among 48, non-citizens, 16,000 naturalized citizens and 63,02 U.S. born citizens, obtained from data from the National Health Interview Survey from 1998 to 2021.
https://t.co/MBloztzj7p Risk of death among Latino immigrants without documents higher than those naturalized.
New statistics show that undocumented immigrant Latinos are the highest risk group for mortality, even than those immigrants..
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The analysis revealed that non-citizens have higher risk of death from health problems including heart disease, stroke and hypertension, type 2 diabetes and obesity than naturalized immigrants or U.S.-born persons
Non-citizens also face a higher risk of death from accidents than members. those of other groups.
However, all immigrants, both non-citizen Latinos and naturalized US Latinos are twice as likely to die of cancer than US-born Latinos.
“We know that non-citizens are more likely to face poverty, segregation and inadequate access to health care, mechanisms that negatively affect health,” he said. in a statement Jenny S. Guadamuz, lead author of the study and researcher at USC.
She added that “it is also widely known that immigrants do less health care use.”
The study, published Tuesday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, is the first to examine the risk of death of Latino immigrants in young adulthood compared to Latinos US born
Research does not include recent deaths from the pandemic. The researchers warned that the ravages of the covid-18 in Latino immigrant communities without immigration status worsen disparities.
Last year, a separate study by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that working-age Latino immigrants (from 20 to 54 years old) were 11 times more likely to die from covid-19 than men and women born in the United States.
“The COVID 19 is probably killing them immigrant populations that were already vulnerable to earlier deaths due to other social structures,” Guadamuz noted.
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