Poor Patients Who Are Healthy? (or the Latino health paradox)

Posted on: August 28th, 2006
Filed Under: [ Health ] [ Hispanic News ] [ Top Stories ]
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The so-called Latino paradox puzzles medical experts, who seek the answer in diet, lifestyles and support networks.

“Thousands of Latino patients stream though the East Los Angeles practice of Dr. Hector Flores and his partners each year.

The older ones go to the family practice with arthritis and hypertension, the younger ones with diabetes and asthma.

What surprises Flores, however, is not how sick they are, it is how sick they are not.”

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