Weight status of Mexican immigrant women: A comparison with women in Mexico and with US-born Mexican American women

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1634-1640

  Guendelman, Sylvia D ^a   Ritterman Weintraub, Miranda L ^a   Fernald, Lia C H ^a   Kaufer Horwitz, Martha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NUTRITION; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881513269     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.301171     Document Type: Article

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