Earlier this Tuesday, Centers for Diseases Control revealed information of their first national study on health risks that are concerning for the 57 million Hispanics who are living in United States. Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of CDC, reported that cancer and heart disease are the two most top cause of death that occurs among Hispanics. The report is called CDC Vital Signs and it was conducted by the federal agency where they took previous data from researchers and studies to come up the with a report.
This study is particularly leaning towards the Hispanics from Puerto Rico, who are likely to be diagnosed with chronic liver disease, diabetes and heart disease. These study excludes Mexican-Americans or Cuban-Americans.
As statistical data shows that fifty percent of Hispanics are more likely to die from diabetes and chronic liver disease than their non-Hispanic counterparts who are residing in the United States.
In the statement by Dr. Tom Friedman, he mentions that there are other health risks where the Hispanics has a better chance of avoiding these risk factors but overall it needs to be improved.
He also stated that nonsmokers and physically active person has less risk of catching these chronic diseases as four out of every ten Hispanics die from cancer and heart diseases.
Dr. Ken Dominguez, an epidemiologist with CDC, predicts that the higher rate of diabetes and obesity may also be cause of these risk factors but that is just a hypotheses.
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