EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ORAL HEALTH OF MINORITY ADULTS

这项建议的目的是提供对口语的全面描述 居住在纽约市的主要少数群体的健康状况 (纽约市)，并将他们的疾病水平与推定的解释因素联系起来。 龋齿和牙周病的患病率在很大程度上是未知的。 对于许多种族和少数族裔亚群来说，因为他们要么是 在全国调查中缺席或代表性不足。1990年纽约市人口普查 显示其43.2%的居民是白人；在一年中下降了14.6% 在这十年中，总人口出现了温和增长。这些人口统计数据 向少数族裔城市的转变在很大程度上是由于 20世纪70年代S和80年代来自亚洲、加勒比和拉丁的移民 美洲国家。以及已经建立起来的非裔美国人 和波多黎各人口，这些新的群体正在改变 纽约市、其他东部沿海城市以及不同城市的人口概况 学位，美国的城市。 重点将放在纽约市最大的少数族裔群体上， 三个少数民族。社区居住的成年志愿者(18-65岁) 将从中国人、印度人、非裔美国人、加勒比海人招募 纽约市的黑人非西班牙裔、多米尼加和波多黎各社区。一个 分层抽样设计将确保公平的性别分布和 三个年龄组。以及综合口腔治疗的临床数据 考试，我们将收集详细的营养资料，人口统计资料， 文化/行为、牙科意识和使用数据。结合 与该中心的其他研究一起，生物因素将通过 每个受试者的微生物、唾液和菌斑样本的方法 与临床疾病指标相关。这一假说源于 我们正在进行的研究是，少数族裔群体的口腔健康状况 在不同程度上，这与以白人为主的多数人的情况不同。这 研究将检查这些观察到的差异可能达到的程度 与疾病的推定解释因素的度量有关。在……里面 此外，纽约大学教职员工的持续培训和接触 流行病学研究领域的学生将继续并扩大 进入营养、行为和生物样本采集领域。

The aim of this proposal is to provide a comprehensive description of oral health status of the principle minority groups living in New York City (NYC), and to relate their disease levels to putative explanatory factors. The prevalence of dental caries and periodontal disease is largely unknown for many racial and ethnic minority sub-groups, because they are either absent or under-represented in national surveys. The 1990 census for NYC indicated that 43.2% of its residents are white; a 14.6% decline in a decade that saw a modest growth in overall population. This demographic shift to a city of minorities is largely due to increased levels of immigration throughout the 1970's and 80's from Asian, Caribbean and Latin American countries. Along with the already established African-American and Puerto Rican populations, these newer groups are changing the population profile of NYC, other eastern seaboard cities and, to varying degrees, the cities of the United States. Emphasis will be placed on the largest minority groups in NYC from each of three racial minorities. Community-dwelling adult volunteers (ages 18-65) will be recruited from the Chinese, Indian, African-American, Caribbean Black Non-Hispanic, Dominican, and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in NYC. A stratified sample design will ensure equitable distribution of gender and three age groupings. Along with clinical data from comprehensive oral exams, we will collect detailed nutritional, demographic, cultural/behavioral, dental awareness and utilization data. In conjunction with other studies in this Center, biological factors will be assessed by means of microbial, salivary and plaque samples from each subject and correlated with clinical disease measures. The hypothesis, derived from our ongoing study, is that the oral health status of minority groups differs, in varying degrees, from that of the mostly white majority. This study will examine the extent to which these observed differences can be related to measures of putative explanatory factors of disease. In addition, continued training and exposure of the NYUCD faculty arid students in the area of epidemiological research will continue and expand into areas of nutrition, behavior, and collection of biological samples.