Immigrants outlive other Californians
Thursday, May 13, 2004 Posted: 2:52 PM EDT (1852 GMT)
San Francisco, California (Reuters) -- California immigrants live an average of four years longer than U.S.-born residents of the state but researchers concede they do not know why, according to a study by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Immigrants on average have a life expectancy of 81 years versus 77 years for U.S.-born residents of the nation's most populous state.
The study -- The Demographics of Mortality in California -- was based on data from the 2000 U.S. Census and the state's Department of Public Health. It was released Wednesday.
Article: http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/05/13/immigrant.mortality.reut/index.html