Higher risk for obesity among mexican-american and mexican immigrant children and adolescents than among peers in mexico

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 517-522

  Hernández Valero, María A ^a   Bustamante Montes, L Patricia ^b   Hernández, Mike ^a   Halley Castillo, Elizabeth ^c   Wilkinson, Anna V ^a   Bondy, Melissa L ^a   Olvera, Norma ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c Centro Médico Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Health disparities; Mexican Immigrant population; Minority; Obesity risk

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MIGRATION; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865861474     PISSN: 15571912     EISSN: 15571920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-011-9535-9     Document Type: Article

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