Editing Harlem (section)

==== Other health problems ====
Health outcomes for men have generally been worse than those of women. [[Infant mortality]] was 124 per thousand in 1928, meaning that 12.4% of infants would die.<ref name="NYT19291024">{{cite web |title=SEEK WAYS TO CUT HARLEM DEATH RATE; Six City Health Groups Meet to Discuss Program for New Centre There. BAD HOUSING IS STRESSED Congestion Causes Mortality Toll 40 Per Cent Higher Than City as a Whole, Experts Assert. |website=The New York Times |date=October 24, 1929 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/10/24/archives/seek-ways-to-cut-harlem-death-rate-six-city-health-groups-meet-to.html |access-date=March 21, 2019 |archive-date=March 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321152458/https://www.nytimes.com/1929/10/24/archives/seek-ways-to-cut-harlem-death-rate-six-city-health-groups-meet-to.html |url-status=live }}</ref> By 1940, infant mortality in Harlem was 5%, and the death rate from disease generally was twice that of the rest of New York. [[Tuberculosis]] was the main killer, and four times as prevalent among Harlem citizens than among the rest of New York's population.<ref name="NYT19291024" />

A 1990 study of [[life expectancy]] of teenagers in Harlem reported that 15-year-old girls in Harlem had a 65% chance of surviving to the age of 65, about the same as women in Pakistan. Fifteen-year-old men in Harlem, on the other hand, had a 37% chance of surviving to 65, about the same as men in [[Angola]]; for men, the survival rate beyond the age of 40 was lower in Harlem than [[Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McCord |first1=C. |first2=H. P. |last2=Freeman |title=Excess Mortality in Harlem |journal=[[New England Journal of Medicine]] |volume=322 |year=1990 |issue=3 |pages=173–177 |doi=10.1056/NEJM199001183220306 |pmid=2294438 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Infectious diseases and [[cardiovascular disease|diseases of the circulatory system]] were to blame, with a variety of contributing factors, including consumption of the [[soul food|deep-fried foods]] traditional to [[Stroke Belt|the South]], which may contribute to [[heart disease]].