ArticlePreventing chronic disease2010
Socioeconomic status and prevalence of obesity and diabetes in a Mexican American community, Cameron County, Texas, 2004-2007.
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134 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- The association of cancer-preventive lifestyle with colonoscopy screening use in border Hispanic adults along the Texas-Mexico border.Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2025Article
- Polygenic risk score for type 2 diabetes shows context-dependent effects across populations.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The Circulating Lipidome In Severe Obesity.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Multiomics reveal key inflammatory drivers of severe obesity: IL4R, LILRA5, and OSM.Cell genomics · 2025Article
- The cross-sectional association between lifestyle behaviors and breast and cervical cancer screening among Hispanic women along the Texas-Mexico border.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
- Quantile regression based method for characterizing risk-specific behavioral patterns in relation to longitudinal left-censored biomarker data collected from heterogeneous populations.Journal of applied statistics · 2025Article
- Interaction between type 2 diabetes and past COVID-19 on active tuberculosis.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Picking the low-hanging fruit: the cost-effectiveness of opportunistic diabetes screening during tuberculosis contact investigations on the Texas-Mexico border.BMJ public health · 2024Article
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introductionMexican Americans are at increased risk for obesity and diabetes. We established a cohort on the United States-Mexico border to determine the prevalence of obesity and diabetes in this Mexican American population and to see whether minor economic advantages had any effect on health.
methodsWe randomly selected and extensively documented 810 people aged 35 to 64 years. Weighted data were analyzed to establish prevalence of obesity and diabetes and other markers of poor health such as elevated glycated hemoglobin levels.
resultsRates of obesity (body mass index > or = 30 kg/m(2)) were 57% in the first (lower) of 4 socioeconomic strata by income and were 55.5% in the third (higher). People in the higher socioeconomic stratum were significantly less likely to have undiagnosed diabetes (2% vs 9%). Among people aged 55 to 64 years, rates of diabetes were significantly higher among those in the lower socioeconomic stratum than among those in the higher stratum. Rates of undiagnosed diabetes had similar differences. Approximately three-fourths of the respondents reported having no health insurance, and we found no difference between people in different socioeconomic strata.
conclusionRates of obesity and diabetes in this border community are among the highest in the United States. Belonging to the lower socioeconomic stratum significantly increased the likelihood of having undiagnosed diabetes and, in patients too young to be eligible for Medicare, the overall risk of developing diabetes. Modest improvement in income has a beneficial effect on health in this racial/ethnic minority community.
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