Region of birth and black diets: the Harlem Household Survey

This study compared dietary risk factors among Southern-born and other Blacks in Central Harlem. A survey of residents of Central Harlem was used to compute a "healthy diet" score for 621 subjects. Southern-born respondents had the highest-risk diets. Although their numbers were small, Car...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 1998-08, Vol.88 (8), p.1199-1202
Main Authors: Greenberg, M R, Schneider, D, Northridge, M E, Ganz, M L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
African Americans
African Americans - statistics & numerical data
Age groups
Aged
Analysis. Health state
Biological and medical sciences
Birth place
Black American people
Black people
Cancer
Cardiovascular Diseases - etiology
Cardiovascular Diseases - prevention & control
Caribbean Region - ethnology
Chronic illnesses
Comparative studies
Diabetes
Diet
Discriminant analysis
Disease prevention
Epidemiology
Esophagus
Feeding Behavior - ethnology
Female
Food
Fruit
Fruit juices
General aspects
Harlem
Health care
Health promotion
Humans
Inner city
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Mortality
Neoplasms - etiology
Neoplasms - prevention & control
New York City
New York City - epidemiology
Noncitizens
Nutrition research
Nutrition Surveys
Oils & fats
Polls & surveys
Prostate
Public health
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Questionnaires
Regional variations
Relationship
Risk factors
Salt
Social Environment
Socioeconomic Factors
Surveillance
Urban Population - statistics & numerical data
Variance analysis
Vegetables
Womens health
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Summary:This study compared dietary risk factors among Southern-born and other Blacks in Central Harlem. A survey of residents of Central Harlem was used to compute a "healthy diet" score for 621 subjects. Southern-born respondents had the highest-risk diets. Although their numbers were small, Caribbean-born respondents, particularly those younger than 45 years, had the lowest-risk diets. The variation in diets in Central Harlem was considerable, with Southern-born Blacks at highest dietary risk for chronic diseases. These results remain to be tested elsewhere, as does the contribution of other chronic disease risk factors.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.88.8.1199