Associations of intergenerational education with waist circumference, metabolic syndrome, and type-2 diabetes in US Latinos

Objective—The purpose of this study was to examine the association of intergenerational education and country of birth with waist circumference, metabolic syndrome, and type-2 diabetes among older adult Latinos in the United States. Design and Methods—We used cross-sectional data from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging, a cohort of older adult Mexican-American Latinos (mean age=70 years). At baseline, we measured waist circumference and assessed metabolic syndrome and diabetes according to Users may view, print, copy, and download text and data-mine the content in such documents, for the purposes of academic research, subject always to the full Conditions of use:http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms Corresponding Author information: Allison E. Aiello, PhD, MS Professor of Epidemiology Department of Epidemiology Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill T: 919-966-2149 F: 919-966-2089 [email protected]. Competing Interests: None HHS Public Access Author manuscript Obesity (Silver Spring). Author manuscript; available in PMC 2016 May 01. Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2015 May ; 23(5): 1097–1104. doi:10.1002/oby.21051. A uhor M anscript