Higher Risk for Obesity Among Mexican–American and Mexican Immigrant Children and Adolescents than Among Peers in Mexico

We conducted a cross-sectional study among 1,717 children and adolescents of Mexican origin ages 5–19 years living in Mexico and Texas to explore the influence of country of birth and country of longest residence on their overweight and obesity status. Descriptive statistics were used to compare dem...

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Published in:Journal of immigrant and minority health 2012-08, Vol.14 (4), p.517-522
Main Authors: Hernández-Valero, María A., Bustamante-Montes, L. Patricia, Hernández, Mike, Halley-Castillo, Elizabeth, Wilkinson, Anna V., Bondy, Melissa L., Olvera, Norma
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Age
Body Mass Index
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
Child
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Chronic illnesses
Cohort analysis
Comparative Law
Country of birth
Cross-Sectional Studies
Emigrants and Immigrants - statistics & numerical data
Enrollments
Epidemiology
Families & family life
Female
Health disparities
Health Status Disparities
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic people
Humans
Immigrants
Immigration
Informed consent
International & Foreign Law
Logistic Models
Male
Medical research
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mexican American people
Mexican Americans - statistics & numerical data
Mexican people
Mexicans
Mexico - epidemiology
Mexico - ethnology
Minority & ethnic groups
Mothers
Noncitizens
Obese children
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Obesity - ethnology
Original Paper
Overweight
Population
Prevalence
Private International Law
Public Health
Risk Factors
Social research
Sociology
Statistical analysis
Studies
Teenagers
Texas - epidemiology
Young Adult
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Summary:We conducted a cross-sectional study among 1,717 children and adolescents of Mexican origin ages 5–19 years living in Mexico and Texas to explore the influence of country of birth and country of longest residence on their overweight and obesity status. Descriptive statistics were used to compare demographic and anthropometric characteristics of participants born and raised in Mexico (Mexicans), born in Mexico and raised in the United States (Mexican immigrants), and born and raised in the United States (Mexican–Americans). Univariate and multivariate nominal logistic regression was used to determine the demographic predictors of obesity adjusted by country of birth, country of residence, age, and gender. Almost half (48.8%) of the Mexican–Americans and 43.2% of the Mexican immigrants had body mass index at the 85th percentile or above, compared to only 29.3% of the Mexicans ( P  
ISSN:1557-1912
1557-1920
DOI:10.1007/s10903-011-9535-9