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Region of birth and black diets: the Harlem Household Survey
M R Greenberg1, D Schneider, M E Northridge
1New Jersey Graduate Program in Public Health, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. mrg@rci.rutgers.edu
Objectives:
This study compared dietary risk factors among Southern-born and other Blacks in Central Harlem.
Methods:
A survey of residents of Central Harlem was used to compute a "healthy diet" score for 621 subjects.
Results:
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.
Conclusions:
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.
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