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Diabetes and hypertension increases in a society with abdominal obesity: results of the Mexican National Health Survey 2000

To determine the prevalences of overweight, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HT) in the Mexican population and compare them with those of a previous Mexican urban survey and an American survey. A structured, randomised, nationally representative Mexican sample was compared wi...

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Published in:Public health nutrition 2005-02, Vol.8 (1), p.53-60
Main Authors: Sánchez-Castillo, Claudia P, Velásquez-Monroy, Oscar, Lara-Esqueda, Agustín, Berber, Arturo, Sepulveda, Jaime, Tapia-Conyer, Roberto, T James, W Philip
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Summary:To determine the prevalences of overweight, obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and hypertension (HT) in the Mexican population and compare them with those of a previous Mexican urban survey and an American survey. A structured, randomised, nationally representative Mexican sample was compared with a 1993 Mexican urban survey and the US Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) of non-Hispanic Whites. The Mexican National Health Survey 2000. SUBJECTS were 12,856 men and 28,332 women, aged 20-69 years, who had their body weight, height, waist circumference (WC), blood pressure and fasting capillary blood glucose measured. Mexican adult men and women had a high prevalence of overweight (41.3 and 36.3%, respectively) and obesity (19.4 and 29.0%, respectively), similar to those in the USA in 1988-1992 and exceeding those of the 1993 Mexican survey. The prevalence of HT was 33.3% in men and 25.6% in women, with inferred DM rates of 5.6 and 9.7%, respectively. Abdominal obesity affected 46.3% of men (WC>or=94 cm) and 81.4% of women (WC>or=80 cm). There was a high prevalence of abdominal obesity in normal-weight women, with co-morbidities relating better to WC than to body mass index (BMI) in both sexes. Rates of DM and HT exceeded US rates on a comparable BMI or WC basis in adults aged
ISSN:1368-9800
1475-2727
DOI:10.1079/PHN2004659