Depression on the rise among US Hispanic women: experts

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Depression and other mental troubles are on the rise among Latin American women immigrants to the United States, as they battle economic woes and try to bridge the cultural gap, experts say.

"If you control for socio-economic factors, Latinos have the same rate of depression as other population groups, but since Latinos are usually poorer, they have higher rates of depression," Sarah Huertas-Goldman of the University of Puerto Rico told AFP at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting.

"It's because they are poor, with all the stresses that brings," she said.

Hispanic female teens in the United States were the group most likely to seriously contemplate suicide, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control.

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