Depression engulfs area’s Puerto Ricans - Boston, Massachusetts

“Puerto Ricans in Greater Boston are in the midst of an epidemic of depression, researchers reported yesterday, with 58 percent of middle-aged women and 38 percent of middle-aged men diagnosed with the condition.

The findings emerged from a major ongoing study of Puerto Rican health conducted by researchers at Tufts and Northeastern universities who are using four-hour, in-person interviews and blood and urine tests to look at a range of health issues in the state’s largest Hispanic group. The study, the most elaborate portrait ever of the medical status of Puerto Ricans in the Boston area, has also found alarmingly high rates of diabetes and obesity.”

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