Individual and Area-Based Indicators of Acculturation and the Metabolic Syndrome Among Low-Income Mexican American Women Living in a Border Region | Zendy

Karla Espinosa Monteros | Zendy; Linda C. Gallo | Zendy; John P. Elder | Zendy; Gregory A. Talavera | Zendy

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Individual and Area-Based Indicators of Acculturation and the Metabolic Syndrome Among Low-Income Mexican American Women Living in a Border Region

Author(s) -

Karla Espinosa Monteros,

Linda C. Gallo,

John P. Elder,

Gregory A. Talavera

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2008.141903

Subject(s) - acculturation , odds , psychosocial , ethnic group , gerontology , medicine , demography , environmental health , socioeconomic status , odds ratio , population , logistic regression , metabolic syndrome , obesity , sociology , pathology , psychiatry , anthropology

We sought to examine the relationships between individual and area-based indicators of acculturation and metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk among a sample of Mexican American women living in the California-Baja California border region.

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