Table 3.

Mortality rates in 4 major racial groups in U.S. ¹

	Relative share in overall mortality inside the racial group				Mortality relative to White Americans2
Cause of Death	Whites	African Americans	Latino Americans	Asians	African Americans	Latino Americans	Asians
Heart disease	27	26.6	25.3	25.5	0.98	0.94	0.94
Coronary heart disease	17.6	139	16.4	16.2	0.79	0.93	0.92
Stroke	52	6	5.7	8.6	1.15	1.09	1.65
Chronic obstructtive pulmonary diseases	4.9	26	2.5	2.8	0.53	0.51	0.57
Cancer	268	23.3	22.8	28.3	0.87	0.85	1.05
Pneumo-nia / Influenza	2.8	2.5	2.9	3.9	0.89	1.03	1.39
Liver diseases / Cirrhosis	1.6	1.1	3.5	0.9	0.69	2.18	0.56
Diabetes	2.7	4.2	5.5	3.3	1.55	2.03	1.22
HIV infection	0.6	3	1.8	0.3	5	3	0.5
External causes	10.4	9.9	13.4	9.2	0.95	1.29	0.88
All causes (per 100000)	450.4	690.9	332.8	264.6

Notes. According to National Center for Health Statistics [74]. Mortality rate in White Americans is taken as 1.