The Mexican origin mortality transition: differentials by age and sex.

The authors analyze mortality trends for U.S. Mexican Americans using data for Bexar County Texas. Death certificates for the period 1935-1985 were examined to "(1) determine...the degree of excess mortality among Mexican Americans Mexican immigrants and Anglos due to leading underlying causes of death (2) estimate the extent to which life expectancy might be increased in each of these groups by elimination of specific causes of death (3) specify the degree to which cause-of-death patterns vary by gender and (4) determine the extent to which aging of the population contributed to gender-specific changes in mortality risk...." (EXCERPT)