Table 6. Age-standardized death rates by cause of death and nativity: New York City 2008–2010^a.

Cause of Death	Native-born	Foreign-born	Ratio Foreign-born to Native-born
HIV/AIDS	19.56	3.40	0.174
Drug- and alcohol-relatedb	26.28	7.63	0.290
Mental disorders	16.30	8.52	0.523
Homicide	7.82	4.11	0.525
Lung cancer	46.02	24.21	0.526
Other infectious diseases	16.59	9.30	0.560
Other external causes	34.12	19.55	0.573
Diseases of the digestive system	22.10	13.09	0.592
Respiratory diseases	65.91	42.88	0.651
All other causes	40.39	26.88	0.666
Diseases of the genitourinary system	12.20	8.38	0.687
Nervous system and sense organ, incl. Alzheimer	14.99	10.34	0.690
Circulatory diseases	322.76	230.23	0.713
Symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions	5.42	4.01	0.739
Breast, colon, prostate, rectal, and anal cancer	45.22	34.11	0.754
All other cancers	94.87	73.17	0.771
All causes	768.33	512.62	0.667

^aMean, male and female age-standardized death rate per 100,000.

^bCombination of causes appearing elsewhere in the table.