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Table 1 Socioeconomic level and ethnic origin of inhabitants of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and IHMCP affiliates, based on the 2001 Argentinean census

From: Cardiovascular risk factors and frontotemporal dementia: a case–control study

 

City of Buenos Aires (%)

IHMCP (%)

Upper class

10

5

Upper middle class

16

19.4

Middle class

30

37.5

Lower middle class

21

25.6

Lower class

17

12.5

Poor

13

0

Total

100

100

Ethnic origin

  

Caucasian

92

95.5

Asian

4

2

African American

1

0.5

Mestizos (a)

3

2

  1. IHMCP, Italian Hospital Medical Care Program. (a) Mestizos (Spanish term used to designate people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry living in the region of Latin America).