The Roseto effect: a 50-year comparison of mortality rates. | Zendy

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The Roseto effect: a 50-year comparison of mortality rates.

Author(s) -

Brenda P. Egolf,

Judith N. Lasker,

Sharon G. Wolf,

Louise Potvin

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.82.8.1089

Subject(s) - demography , mortality rate , medicine , homogeneous , gerontology , myocardial infarction , mathematics , combinatorics , sociology

Earlier studies found striking differences in mortality from myocardial infarction between Roseto, a homogeneous Italian-American community in Pennsylvania, and other nearby towns between 1955 and 1965. These differences disappeared as Roseto became more "Americanized" in the 1960s. The present study extended the comparison over a longer period of time to test the hypothesis that the findings from this period were not due to random fluctuations in small communities.

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