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Posted on: May 12th, 2008
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Puerto Ricans are under attack, the numbers are startling, and they are 125% more likely than whites and 80% more likely than blacks to have asthma. When it comes to the prevalence of attacks it is even worse, Puerto Ricans have the highest attack prevalence, 140% higher than non-Hispanic whites. This is according to the Centers for Disease Control 2005 statistics (CDC). In 2005 17% of Puerto Ricans living in the US had asthma compared to 5% of Mexicans, whites had 7.6%, and non-Hispanic blacks had 9.4%.
So of the approximately 396,000 Hispanics living in the tri sate area (US Census 2006) some 25% have asthma. If you break it down further, of the approximately 212.200 Puerto Ricans in the tri State area some 36,000 have asthma.”*
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