Epidemiological Profiles of Foreign-Born and US-Born Hispanic Blood Donors in a Major Metropolitan Area in the United States

Table 3

Characteristics of foreign-born and US-born Hispanic donors by country/region of interest.

	Cuba		Central America		South America		Mexico		Puerto Rico		US-born
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
All donors	125	0.7	1,185	7.0	1,346	7.9	1,629	9.6	834	4.9	11,839	69.8
Gender
Male	63	50.4	533	45.0	635	47.2	773	47.5	379	45.4	5,053	42.7
Female	62	49.6	652	55.0	711	52.8	856	52.5	455	54.6	6,786	57.3
Age groups (years)
16–24	16	13.0	450	38.0	501	37.2	915	56.2	243	29.2	7,324	61.9
25–34	7	5.7	291	24.6	277	20.6	354	21.8	188	22.6	1,925	16.3
35–44	27	21.9	235	19.8	269	20.0	246	15.1	196	23.6	1,447	12.2
45–54	46	37.4	134	11.3	210	15.6	93	5.7	123	14.8	789	6.7
55–64	22	17.9	62	5.2	77	5.7	16	1.0	62	7.5	281	2.4
65–82	5	4.1	13	1.1	12	0.9	3	0.2	19	2.3	64	0.5
Mean age	45.0	—	31.4	—	32.3	—	26.1	—	35	—	25.8	—
M. donation freq.	3.1		2.1		2.4		1.8		2.4		2.0
Hx. of Transfusion	6	4.8	29	0.0	33	2.4	31	1.9	24	2.9	246	2.1
Hx. of deferral	20	16.0	145	12.2	197	14.6	151	9.3	86	10.3	1,190	10.1
Donated at fixed	18	14.4	146	12.3	227	16.9	126	7.7	95	11.4	1,074	9.1
Ever pregnant	42	73.7	321	52.4	308	47.2	320	39.5	233	54.4	2,292	35.8
Infectious disease
CMV	7	5.6	88	7.4	146	10.8	96	5.9	38	4.6	459	3.9
Hepatitis B	1	0.8	19	1.6	6	0.4	15	0.9	7	0.8	56	0.5
Hepatitis C	0	0	1	0.1	2	0.1	4	0.2	5	0.6	23	0.2
Syphilis	0	0	11	1.0	7	0.5	9	0.6	1	0.1	30	0.3
HIV	0	0	1	0.1	0	0	1	0.1	0	0	23	0.2
Chagas disease	0	0	0	0	1	0.1	5	0.3	0	0	1	0.0

M.: mean; Hx.: history.