This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Related article  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

To the Editor.—The recent documentation of ethnic differences in serum cotinine levels among non-Hispanic whites, Hispanics, and blacks¹ raises the possibility that higher cotinine levels among black smokers may help explain the increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality of black Americans. The data are also of interest because of lower serum cotinine levels in Hispanic or Mexican American smokers than those seen in non-Hispanic whites or blacks. Furthermore, smoking exposure in the home appears to be less for Mexican Americans who participated in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). Other data, albeit from small sample sizes, have indicated a lesser degree of tobacco smoke exposure among Hispanics in New Mexico (R. D. Lindeman, MD, New Mexico Elder Health Study, oral communication, April 15, 1998).² On the other hand, Mexican Americans had the lowest socioeconomic status (SES) of all 3 ethnic groups, with lesser educational achievement, greater . . . [Full Text of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

RELATED ARTICLE

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Serum Cotinine Levels of Cigarette Smokers: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1991
Ralph S. Caraballo, Gary A. Giovino, Terry F. Pechacek, Paul D. Mowery, Patricia A. Richter, Warren J. Strauss, Donald J. Sharp, Michael P. Eriksen, James L. Pirkle, and Kurt R. Maurer
JAMA. 1998;280(2):135-139.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT