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Bilingualism in older Mexican-American immigrants is associated with higher scores on cognitive screening
... in Mexican-Americans, a culturally distinct Spanish- speaking ...elderly Mexican-American immigrants enrolled in the Sacramento Latino Study on Aging ...
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CHRNA5 and CHRNA3 Variants and Level of Neuroticism in Young Adult Mexican American Men and Women
... The present report is part of a larger study exploring genetic risk factors for AUD among Mexican Americans (e.g., Ehlers & Phillips, 2007; Ehlers et al., 2012). Un- derstanding the relationship between ...
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Parental feeding practices in Mexican American families: initial test of an expanded measure
... parental feeding practices in Mexican American families. It is not yet clear the degree to which some aspects of par- ental feeding practices are culturally specific. Two studies suggest that Hispanic ...
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Genome- and epigenome-wide association study of hypertriglyceridemic waist in Mexican American families
... replicate in Mexican American families. Second, estima- tion of heritability is often considered an essential first step towards understanding the genetic basis of a pheno- typic trait, and we find that ...
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The Meaning and Experiences of Healthy Eating in Mexican American Children: A Focused Ethnography
... Traditional Mexican diets are low in fat and high in fiber-rich ...a Mexican staple food for many. As acculturation has occurred, many Mexican Americans are consuming a more traditional ...Many ...
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Benefits of a snacking intervention as part of a school-based obesity intervention for Mexican American children
... 46. Johnston CA, Palcic JL, Tyler C, Stansberry S, Reeves RS, Foreyt JP. Increasing vegetable intake in Mexican-American youth: a randomized controlled trial. J Am Diet Assoc. 2011;111(5):716-720. 47. ...
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Barriers and facilitators to mexican american participation in clinical trials: physician and patient focus group perspectives
... to Mexican-American clinical trials participation corrobo- rate the findings of previous research; including many of those outlined in the recent Ford, et ...
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The Portrayal of Mexican American Females in Realistic Picture Books (1998--2004)
... of Mexican American females in picture books written between 1998 and 2004 with the portrayal of Mexican American females between 1990 and 1997, it was considered to be important to perform ...
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Risk Factors Associated With Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Mexican American Children
... primarily Mexican American children, those who were born in the United States had an increase in risk of 20% per year for develop- ing ...to Mexican immigrant families have a TST at 12 to 15 months ...
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A Qualitative Study of the Day-to-Day Lives of Obese Mexican-American Adolescent Females
... obese Mexican-American adolescent females and their families were interviewed about their food choices, personal and family barriers to weight loss, sources of support, previous weight-loss experience, and ...
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Weight Loss in Overweight Mexican American Children: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
... The purpose of this study was to conduct a random- ized, controlled trial to test an intensive intervention (II) for weight loss in overweight Mexican American middle school children. We compared the ...
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Rationalizing Racism: Arizona Representatives Employment of Euphemisms for an Assault on Mexican American Studies
... Cammarota and Romero (2009) contextualize the engagement exhibited by Mexican American Studies subjects by examining the conceptual underpinnings driving the MAS program. They propose that it is through ...
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Parental feeding practices and child weight status in Mexican American families: a longitudinal analysis
... The current study examined four types of parental feed- ing practices: restriction of amount of food, pressure to eat, use of food to control behavior, and positive involve- ment in child eating. There is evidence that ...
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Intergenerational family dynamics and leisure among second-generation Mexican-American youth
... mainstream American, passive activities (watching TV, playing videogames, hanging out) in the confines of their ...soccer, American football, rugby) mainly in parks, as part of the Latino leagues, and ...
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Family cohesion, acculturation, maternal cortisol, and preterm birth in Mexican-American women
... The primary purpose of this analysis was to examine the effects of two psychosocial/cultural factors (family cohesion and acculturation) as potential antecedents of the neuroendocrine stress response (cortisol) to ...
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Food insecurity may be linked to childhood obesity in low-income Mexican-American families
... range, Mexican-American children were more likely to be overweight than those who were non-Hispanic black or non- Hispanic white (13% versus 9%, respec- tively) (NCHS ...
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Cardiovascular Disease Insulin Risk in Mexican-American and Anglo-American Children and Mothers
... and Mexican-American mother-child pairs are shown in Table ...for Mexican-American ...in Mexican-American pairs but not in Anglo-American ...
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Acculturation and Dietary Change in Mexican American Immigrant Women
... migrant Mexican American families (FM) living in Yuma County, Arizona, and low-income non- migrant Mexican families (NM) from Hermosillo, Sonora, ...
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Importance of Generational Status in Examining Access to and Utilization of Health Care Services by Mexican American Children
... on Mexican American children and one of the only datasets that allows analysis according to ...of Mexican American immigrant children in the United States is significantly larger than a decade ...
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In Utero Exposure to Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) and Neurodevelopment Among Young Mexican American Children
... predominantly Mexican American pop- ulation residing in California provides evidence that in utero exposure to DDT and, to a lesser extent, DDE is associated negatively with child ...
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