Design and Implementation of the Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos

By P. Sorlie, Larissa M. Avilés-Santa, S. Wassertheil-Smoller, R. Kaplan, M. Daviglus, A. Giachello, N. Schneiderman, L. Raij, G. Talavera, M. Allison and 3 more. Annals of Epidemiology, 2010

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PURPOSE The Hispanic Community Health Study (HCHS)/Study of Latinos (SOL) is a comprehensive multi-center community based cohort study of Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Its rationale, objectives, design and implementation are described in this paper. METHODS The HCHS/SOL will recruit 16,000 men and women who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino, age 18-74 years, from a random sample of households in defined communities in the Bronx, Chicago, Miami and San Diego. The sites were selected so that the overall sample would consist of at least 2000 persons in each of the following origin designations: Mexican, Puerto Rican and Dominican, Cuban, and Central and South American. The study includes research in the prevalence of and risk factors for heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders, kidney and liver function, diabetes, cognitive function, dental conditions, and hearing disorders. CONCLUSIONS The HCHS/SOL will 1) characterize the health status and disease burden in the largest minority population in the U.S; 2) describe the positive and negative consequences of immigration and acculturation of Hispanics/Latinos to the mainstream U.S. life-styles, environment and health care opportunities; and 3) identify likely causal factors of many diseases in a population with diverse environmental exposures, genetic backgrounds and early life experiences.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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1. M. Daviglus
2. G. Talavera
3. Larissa M. Avilés-Santa
4. M. Allison
5. Jianwen Cai
6. M. Criqui
7. L. LaVange
8. P. Sorlie

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• Prevalence of Major Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Diseases Among Hispanic/Latino Individuals of Diverse Backgrounds in the United States (2012, methodology): “weighted to adjust for sampling probability and nonresponse.(15,16) Descriptive characteristics, age-standardized to the year 2010 US population, were computed by sex and for all participants by Hispanic/Latino background.”