Mexican Americans
Health related quality of life in older Mexican Americans with diabetes: A cross-sectional study
... The SF-36 is a widely used measure of self-reported health related quality of life [28]. The SF-36 consists of 36 items scored in eight scales: general health perceptions (5 items), physical functioning (10 items), role ...
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The Struggle for Balance: Culture Care Worldview of Mexican Americans About Diabetes Mellitus
... The methodological approaches were appropriate for the status of the science in this area since little is known about the beliefs and attitudes of Mexican Americans with diabetes. Initial research should ...
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A paired sibling analysis of the beta 3 adrenergic receptor and obesity in Mexican Americans
... in Mexican Americans, using a paired sibling design to minimize variability due to genetic background and a previously identified major susceptibility locus for ...this Mexican American ...
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Annual income, hourly wages, and identity Among Mexican Americans and other Latinos
... among Mexican-Americans and other ...among Mexican- and Cuban-Americans. Americans of Mexican and Cuban descent but less so Puerto Ricans are able to increase annual income and ...
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Severe Cognitive Dysfunction and Occupational Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Field Exposure among Elderly Mexican Americans
... of Mexican Americans aged 65+ living in California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and ...the Mexican Americans in this age group living in these ...
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Genetic Influences on Evening Preference Overlap with Those for Bipolar Disorder in a Sample of Mexican Americans and American Indians
... Diurnal preference (e.g., being an owl or lark) has been associated with several psychiatric disorders in- cluding bipolar disorder (BP), major depressive disorder, and substance use disorders. Previous large-scale ...
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The Relationship of Hypertension and Related Cardiovascular Risk Factors to Executive Functioning in Older Mexican Americans
... that Mexican Americans have an increased risk to develop metabolic and vascular conditions [24] there has been limited research on cardiovascular risk, specifically high blood pressure, and cognition in ...
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Increased waist circumference is independently associated with hypothyroidism in Mexican Americans: replicative evidence from two large, population-based studies
... Our results demonstrate that WC, as a measure of cen- tral obesity, is a significant and independent indicator of thyroid dysfunction in Mexican Americans. These results are substantiated by the fact that ...
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Annual income, hourly wages, and identity Among Mexican Americans and other Latinos
... among Mexican-Americans and other ...among Mexican- and Cuban-Americans. Americans of Mexican and Cuban descent but less so Puerto Ricans are able to increase annual income and ...
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'This Ruinous Element': African and Mexican Americans as 'Racial Problems' in early 20th Century California
... dominated Mexican American politics for the first half of the 20 th century, as misguided at ...about Mexican Americans and their categorization as white, makes a more sophisticated argument but one ...
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Falling Behind or Moving Up? The Intergenerational Progress of Mexican Americans
... Given their distribution by race/ethnicity, many of these parental influence measures could be capable of explaining minority-white graduation differentials, at least if they predict graduation rates. Table 4.6 reports ...
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Frailty and health related quality of life in older Mexican Americans
... Our findings suggest and support the need for continued research on interventions that address psychosocial, phys- ical and cognitive approaches to improved health related quality of life. Cognitive approaches with older ...
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Effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty-acid supplementation on neuropathic pain symptoms and sphingosine levels in Mexican-Americans with type 2 diabetes
... Purpose: To determine whether dietary supplementation with omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) reduces neuropathic pain symptoms in Mexican-Americans with type 2 diabetes. Methods: Forty volunteers ...
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Electrocardiographic abnormalities among Mexican Americans: Correlations with diabetes, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome
... community-dwelling Mexican American cohort, persons with diabetes, hypertension, the metabolic syndrome, and obesity were more likely to have ischemic EKG changes, longer QTc intervals, and higher resting ...
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Identity by descent mapping for diastolic blood pressure in unrelated Mexican Americans
... Because Mexican Americans have an- cestors with different ethnic backgrounds and because the genetic variants related to DBP may have different allele frequencies in different ethnic groups, the computer ...
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Seroprevalence of 13 common pathogens in a rapidly growing U S minority population: Mexican Americans from San Antonio, TX
... investigated Mexican Ameri- cans from around San Antonio, Texas, which may not be representative of all US-based ...of Mexican Americans for thirteen relatively common pathogens, which were chosen ...
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Falls and cognitive decline in Mexican Americans 75 years and older
... is used primarily as a screening assessment for cognitive function and has limited sensitivity to detect changes over time, particularly in specialized areas of cognition. Thus, the rate of cognitive decline in our study ...
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Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Growth in Mexican-Americans
... Height and weight data from the Mexican- American portion of the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES) are shown for children of ages 2 to 17 years and compared with [r] ...
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Endothelial function and urine albumin levels among asymptomatic Mexican-Americans and non-Hispanic whites
... as Mexican-American (MA) according to at least one of the following criteria used in the San Antonio Heart Study [7]: 1) Father's surname and mother's maiden name are both Spanish, and both par- ents were born in ...
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Bailando bajo la lluvia : dancing amongst Mexicanos and Mexican Americans in Northern California
... the Mexican Heritage & Mariachi Festival _________ 36 Image 10 Danza at the Día de la Virgen pilgrimage ______________________________ 38 Image 11 Danza Azteca at the Día de los Muertos celebration ...
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