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Cause-of-death disparities in the African diaspora: exploring differences among shared-heritage populations.
Am J Public Health
July 2015
Ian R. Hambleton, Christina Howitt, and Anselm J. Hennis are with the Chronic Disease Research Centre, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados. Selvi Jeyaseelan and Natasha Sobers-Grannum are with the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Rainford J. Wilks is with the Epidemiology Research Unit, Tropical Medicine Research Institute, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. E. Nigel Harris is with the University of the West Indies, Kingston. Marlene MacLeish and Louis W. Sullivan are with the Sullivan Alliance, Alexandria, Virginia.
Objectives: We investigated changes in life expectancy (LE) and cause-specific mortality over time, directly comparing African-descent populations in the United States and the Caribbean.
Methods: We compared LE at birth and cause-specific mortality in 6 disease groups between Caribbean countries with a majority (> 90%) African-descent population and US African Americans.
Results: The LE improvement among African Americans exceeded that of Afro-Caribbeans so that the LE gap, which favored the Caribbean population by 1.