Further Mortality Experience among Japanese Americans

MORTALITY experience of the Japanese, whether resident in Japan, Hawaii, or the continental United States, has differed from that of white persons in the United States in a number of respects (1).Differences in cardio¬ vascular mortality were especially striking.Japanese had lower death rates for diseases of the heart than did white Americans, but higher rates for vascular lesions affecting the central nervous system.These comparisons were made on the basis of data through 1950.Data for a decade later are now available.Data on Japanese deaths in the United States,