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Racial/Ethnic Composition of MSSM Catchment Area

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ubjects will be recruited from the catchment area of the Mount Sinai Medical Center, which is characterized by a diverse ethnic distribution consisting of 49 percent Hispanics, 38 percent Blacks and 7 percent Whites, and from the catchment area of our affiliated hospitals (Queens Hospital Center and Elmhurst Hospital Center) which is comprised of 22 percent Hispanics, 23 percent White non-Hispanics, 26 percent Asians and 24 percent Blacks. The diversity of the population in our catchment areas permits the recruitment of patients from most of the major ethnic groups including Asians and Pacific Islanders, Blacks, Hispanics from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Central and South America and Caucasians. Recruitment efforts will be made to achieve a distribution of study subjects that is similar to the ethnic distribution in the United States which is 75 percent White, 12.3 percent Black, 8.1 percent Hispanic, 3.6 percent Asian and 0.9 percent American Indian or Alaska Native and 0.1 percent Native Hawaiian and other pacific islander.