TABLE 3—
Standardized Mortality Rates, Standardized Mortality Ratios, and Numbers of Excess or Deficit Deaths Among Foreign-Born and US-Born Hispanic Men: California and Texas, 1999–2001
| Foreign-Born Hispanics | US-Born Hispanics | |||||||||
| SMR (vs non-Hispanic Whites) | SMR (vs non-Hispanic Whites) | |||||||||
| Cause of Death | Deaths per 100 000 | All (95% CI) | Texas | California | Excess or Deficita | Deaths per 100 000 | All (95% CI) | Texas | California | Excess or Deficita |
| Social and behavioral | ||||||||||
| Homicide | 19.45 | 2.89 (2.68, 3.11) | 3.13 | 2.81 | 1022 | 25.77 | 3.83 (3.55, 4.12) | 2.72 | 4.76 | 1232 |
| Suicide | 7.98 | 0.35 (0.31, 0.38) | 0.34 | 0.36 | −1175 | 14.22 | 0.62 (0.56, 0.68) | 0.58 | 0.65 | −530 |
| Substance use | 5.02 | 0.33 (0.29, 0.37) | 0.24 | 0.35 | −760 | 18.37 | 1.20 (1.09, 1.31) | 1.05 | 1.37 | 158 |
| Alcohol use | 7.68 | 1.44 (1.28, 1.61) | 0.96 | 1.51 | 148 | 10.53 | 1.98 (1.74, 2.24) | 2.26 | 1.94 | 204 |
| Other accidents and injuries | 37.70 | 1.02 (0.96, 1.08) | 1.07 | 1.06 | 57 | 33.77 | 0.91 (0.85, 0.98) | 0.92 | 0.89 | −216 |
| HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases | 7.56 | 0.79 (0.71, 0.88) | 0.78 | 0.79 | −137 | 13.77 | 1.45 (1.29, 1.61) | 1.63 | 1.30 | 180 |
| Other infectious and parasitic diseases | 2.55 | 0.94 (0.78, 1.11) | 0.90 | 1.00 | −11 | 5.58 | 2.05 (1.75, 2.38) | 2.14 | 1.86 | 127 |
| Total | 88.22 | 0.89 (0.84, 0.93) | 0.89 | 0.89 | −856 | 119.27 | 1.20 (1.14, 1.26) | 1.08 | 1.32 | 1155 |
| Chronic diseases and other causes | ||||||||||
| Cancer | 11.74 | 0.67 (0.61, 0.73) | 0.59 | 0.71 | −396 | 16.80 | 0.95 (0.86, 1.05) | 0.98 | 0.91 | −37 |
| Circulatory | 12.75 | 0.59 (0.54, 0.65) | 0.59 | 0.60 | −571 | 23.17 | 1.07 (0.98, 1.18) | 1.13 | 0.99 | 68 |
| Endocrinic, nutritional, and metabolic | 1.39 | 0.34 (0.26, 0.41) | 0.34 | 0.33 | −193 | 5.20 | 1.26 (1.07, 1.45) | 1.42 | 1.12 | 53 |
| Respiratory | 1.60 | 0.50 (0.40, 0.61) | 0.59 | 0.46 | −109 | 3.34 | 1.05 (0.86, 1.25) | 1.21 | 0.89 | 7 |
| All other | 10.20 | 0.71 (0.64, 0.78) | 0.72 | 0.72 | −299 | 18.83 | 1.31 (1.19, 1.43) | 1.41 | 1.18 | 233 |
| Total | 37.71 | 0.62 (0.58, 0.66) | 0.61 | 0.63 | −1568 | 67.82 | 1.11 (1.05, 1.19) | 1.18 | 1.02 | 324 |
| All causes | 126.98 | 0.79 (0.76, 0.83) | 0.80 | 0.81 | −2424 | 187.80 | 1.17 (1.12, 1.23) | 1.11 | 1.22 | 1479 |
Note. SMR = standardized mortality ratio; CI = confidence interval. Death rates were indirectly standardized using non-Hispanic White rates and SMRs.
aThe numbers in the “excess or deficit” column refer to the difference between the observed number of deaths from each cause in the 3-year period of the study for each group and the number of deaths that would be expected given the population size of the group at each age if age- and cause-specific mortality rates among members of the group had been equal to rates among non-Hispanic Whites of the same gender in the same period.