The relation of acculturation to overweight, obesity, pre-diabetes and diabetes among us Mexican-American women and men

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 58-64

  Garcia, Lorena ^a   Gold, Ellen B ^a   Wang, Lu ^b   Yang, Xiaowei ^a   Mao, Meng ^b   Schwartz, Ann V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Body mass index status; Diabetes status; Mexican Americans

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RACE;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREDIABETIC STATE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861661402     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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