Half-million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures for Hispanics in 2004 - up 49% from 2000
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. Hispanics had nearly 553,000 cosmetic plastic surgery procedures in 2004, an increase of 49 percent from 2000 and a 7 percent increase from 2003, according to statistics released today by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Hispanics led all minority groups in the number of procedures performed, comprising 6 percent of the 9.2 million cosmetic surgery proced...'Chemistry and Flavor of Hispanic Foods' one-day symposium, March 15
SAN DIEGO, March 15 Mat, queso blanco and frijoles: these are just a few examples of the booming growth of Hispanic cuisine, which is becoming increasingly commonplace in restaurants and grocery stores throughout the country. The trend is fueled by this country's fast-growing Hispanic population and its rich and diverse culinary heritage. While consumers have enjoyed treats such as tortilla chip...eDocAmerica launches Hispanic Website for members
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (March 7, 2005) -- eDocAmerica, the web-based provider of doctor-consumer consultations online, today announced that it has launched a Spanish-language version of its website for its increasing number of Hispanic users. ... ..."With the growth of our business to 300,000 covered participants, which is actually an estimated 750,000 when family members are included, we recently exp...English-speaking Hispanic youth more likely to have sex early
CHICAGO Hispanic teenagers with lower acculturation (integration into American society) who use Spanish as their primary language are significantly less likely than their English-speaking more highly acculturated Hispanic peers to have had an initial experience of sexual intercourse, according to an article in the March issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archi...UNC, Wake Forest scholars work to reduce crimes against Hispanics in North Carolina
CHAPEL HILL Crimes against Hispanics -- mostly hard-working people who come to North Carolina trying to improve life for their families and themselves -- jumped as much as 500 percent between 1993 and 1998, according to some estimates. ......Now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University have teamed up to closely examine why Hispanics, whose percen...New study of African-American and Hispanic colorectal cancer patients
ORLANDO (November 1, 2004) -- In a study African-American and Hispanic patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science between 1996 and 2004 over one-quarter were diagnosed before age 50. This new research presented at the 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology highlights the importance of colorectal cancer scree...Black and Hispanic patients wait longer for heart attack treatment
Black and Hispanic patients experience marked delays in heart attack treatment compared with whites, Yale researchers report in an article published in the October 6 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). ... ...The study of approximately 110,000 heart attack patients treated in more than 1,000 hospitals across the country revealed that Hispanic or African American patients have a 10...Mexican Americans at greater risk for stroke than non-Hispanic whites
SAN FRANCISCO The first comparison study of stroke risk among Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites has shown that Mexican Americans experience a substantially greater incidence of stroke. Overall, depending on age, Mexican Americans had between 15 and 110 percent higher stroke risk compared with non-Hispanic whites. Study details and conclusions will be presented at the American Academy of...Overweight Hispanic youth face increased risk of diabetes, metabolic syndrome
Chevy Chase, MD, January 12, 2004 New research shows that large numbers of overweight Hispanic youth already have complications of obesity, including impaired glucose tolerance, which can lead to diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. The findings, which are published in the January issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), indicate that Hispanic youth may have underlying r...Among elderly, depression more prevalent in Hispanics and blacks
Elderly Hispanics and African Americans have higher rates of depression than their white counterparts, due largely to greater health burdens and lack of health insurance, a Northwestern University study has found. ... The study, published in the November online issue of the American Journal of Public Health, showed that major depression was most prevalent among Hispanics 10.8 percent -- followed...Hispanics face high rates of unstable health care coverage, low rates of preventive care
New York City, October 16, 2003--Nearly half (45%) of Hispanics under age 65 and two-thirds (65%) of working-age Hispanics with low incomes were uninsured for all or part of the year in 2000, according to a new analysis by The Commonwealth Fund. Uninsured Hispanics have low rates of some preventive health services: just 39% of uninsured Hispanic adults with diabetes had annual foot exams (needed...Study finds hispanic heart patients have best survival rates
PALO ALTO, Calif.- A study looking at more than 47,000 cardiac patients at...two Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers over 12 years found that Hispanics...had the best survival rate, compared to whites and African-Americans. The...findings, reported in today's Archives of Internal Medicine, confirm earlier...studies showing that minorities have better outcomes at VA hospitals than at...private...Young blacks, Hispanics more prone to stroke than young whites
DALLAS, Nov. 8 The incidence of stroke is higher among blacks and Hispanics ages 20 to 44 than among young whites, according to a study in today's rapid access issue of Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. ...... While studies have shown that blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to suffer stroke in general, this is the first study to compare stroke incidence among youn...Obesity might play part in increasing breast cancer rates among Hispanics
LOS ANGELES, August 9, 2002-Hispanic women have been known to run a lower risk of developing breast cancer than most other women, but their breast cancer rates are climbing-and increasing obesity is one factor that might be to blame. ......The weight that Hispanic women gain during adulthood and their body fat may put them at greater risk for breast cancer both before and after menopause, accordi...Columbia study finds differences in PSA, PSA density test measurements for Caucasian, Hispanic men
Doctors at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital's Columbia Presbyterian campus will report today the results of one of the few studies to look at the performance of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests in the detection of prostate cancer in Hispanics as compared to Caucasians. The study shows when the test is extended to the point of measuring PSA density (PSAD), it is better able to predict whether a...First ethnicity-specific erectile dysfunction study shows prevalence among Hispanic American men
ORLANDO, May 26, 2002 In the first study to estimate race and ethnic-specific prevalence rates of erectile dysfunction (ED) in the US among men aged 40 and over, approximately 20 percent of Hispanic American men were found to have moderate to severe ED, according to data presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association. ...In the first nationwide prevalence study of ED to...Research finds U.S. adolescents inactive; blacks, Hispanics, Asians at biggest risk
.CHAPEL HILL - U.S. adolescents exercise too little and spend.far too much time watching television and videos and playing computer games, a.major new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study shows.. . Minorities, including blacks, Hispanics and Asians, are less active than.whites generally and face greater health risks from being overweight, the study.found. Girls, especially ol...