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The inner city population of the Los Angeles county has rapidly become largely Latino. The 3.3 million Latinos living in the county in 1990 had much higher poverty rates and lower educational attainment rates than Anglo (non-Hispanic white) or blacks. The health indicators of the three groups are compared for 1990. In birth outcome, although Latinos were the least likely to receive care in the first trimester, Latinos and Anglos had identical rates of low birth weight babies, and lower rates than blacks. Latino infant mortality was the lowest of the three. The age-adjusted death rates showed that Latinos have a lower overall death rate than Anglos or blacks, and lower specific rates for heart disease, cancer, AIDS and stroke. Latinos did have higher death rates than Anglos for accidents, homicides, cirrhosis and diabetes. Latinos had incidence rates of gonorrhoea and syphilis similar to Anglos and lower than blacks. The communicable disease rates for Latinos was many times higher than Anglos or blacks, including those for measles, shigellosis, giardiasis and hepatitis A. Implications for family medicine are discussed.
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PMID:Latino health in Los Angeles: family medicine in a changing minority context. 784 24

This study was undertaken to attempt to identify correlations between microsporidial seroprevalence data in man, clinical diseases and groups of people at the risk of HIV/AIDS infection. Groups of patients were selected according to the predilection of members of the genus Encephalitozoon for nervous and kidney tissue. Female prostitutes and alcohol and intravenous drug abusers were selected as groups at risk of HIV/AIDS infections. A total of 401 samples of human sera were examined for the presence of antimicrosporidial IgG antibodies by ELISA test with a titre of 600 considered borderline positivity. The highest occurrence of antimicrosporidial antibodies was found in the groups of alcohol abusers (16% from 43 patients), intravenous drug abusers (11% from 9 patients) and prostitutes (10% from 80 women) for E. cuniculi antigen and in the groups of psychiatric patients (14% from 44 patients), malaria patients (11% from 38 patients) and alcohol abusers (7% from 43 patients) for E. hellem antigen. The occurrence of specific antibodies of the six examined diagnostic units (glomerulonephritis chronica, pyelonephritis chronica, schizophrenia, dementia, multiple sclerosis and cerebral stroke) was statistically significant only in patients with pyelonephritis chronica and dementia (p < 0.05). No cases of microsporidial infection were found among the female prostitutes by parasitological examination, although one case of giardiasis was identified. Sera of patients with high anti-E. cuniculi and anti-E. hellem antibodies (titres in ELISA of 600 and above) were confirmed by Western blot using E. cuniculi and E. hellem polypeptides, respectively. These results suggest that the examined patients could show residual antibodies from past or latent infections.
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PMID:The serological surveillance of several groups of patients using antigens of Encephalitozoon hellem and E. cuniculi antibodies to microsporidia in patients. 968 20