I don’t think they mean hispanic as spanish speaking, but as the race resulting of the mingling of south american natives and europeans (mainly spaniards and portugueses). I feel the term hispanic is used in the USA since this group and the native spanish speakers overlap quite a bit. So it is not “Hispanic (any race)”, but more of " Hispanic american", who do share more genetic and ancestry similarities.
Also, when differenciating by race (we can debate wether this is legit or wether the predisposition to certain illnesses is minimal compared to income or quality of living, but that’s not what I am doing here), the socioeconomic differences are not relevant and appear in all groups. In that regard, “Hispano american” is not the only group with vast differences, but “White” and “Black” are very much riddled with it, but the thing is that for this study, it is not relevant, as it isn’t age (under 50) or state.
Now, what bothers me more is the “Asian/PI” category, I feel like that one has absolutely no basis. I’m guessing the sample was not big enough to qhave different cattegories, but that group feels very sloppy as a category by race.
I don’t think they mean hispanic as spanish speaking, but as the race resulting of the mingling of south american natives and europeans (mainly spaniards and portugueses). I feel the term hispanic is used in the USA since this group and the native spanish speakers overlap quite a bit. So it is not “Hispanic (any race)”, but more of " Hispanic american", who do share more genetic and ancestry similarities.
Also, when differenciating by race (we can debate wether this is legit or wether the predisposition to certain illnesses is minimal compared to income or quality of living, but that’s not what I am doing here), the socioeconomic differences are not relevant and appear in all groups. In that regard, “Hispano american” is not the only group with vast differences, but “White” and “Black” are very much riddled with it, but the thing is that for this study, it is not relevant, as it isn’t age (under 50) or state.
Now, what bothers me more is the “Asian/PI” category, I feel like that one has absolutely no basis. I’m guessing the sample was not big enough to qhave different cattegories, but that group feels very sloppy as a category by race.