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Lintje Ho, MD, MPH, Vivian Bos, PhD, MA and Anton E. Kunst, PhD, MA

At the time of the study, all authors were with the Department of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Centre, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Lintje Ho, MD, MPH, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands (e-mail: l.ho{at}erasmusmc.nl).

We studied differences in cause-specific mortality between highly integrated first- and second-generation Indonesians and native Dutch. We used the municipal population registers and cause-of-death registry to estimate rate ratios via Poisson regression analyses. Although overall mortality levels were similar, cause-of-death patterns varied between Indonesian migrants and native Dutch; the similar levels in overall mortality coincided with the high degree of integration of Indonesians within Dutch society. The differences in cause-of-death patterns may reflect persistent influences of country of origin and migration history.