BACKGROUND Benign reductions in neutrophil counts may be more common at certain ages and in certain ethnic groups and may be affected by sex and smoking status. OBJECTIVE To determine differences in neutrophil counts in the U.S. population according to ethnicity, age, sex, and smoking status. DESIGN Population-based, cross-sectional study. SETTING Various locations in the United States. ...

This paper examines the Brady bond market of two largest Latin American economies, Mexico and Brazil. Results indicate that stripped yield of each market in the very near future is determined primarily by the past yields in the respective markets. However, over a longer-term horizon the interrelationships between the bond markets and the stock markets of the two countries become important. Futu...

This study examines the living arrangements and transitions of elderly Mexican Americans using data over a 14 year period from the Hispanic Established Population for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly. While elderly Mexican Americans are more likely than non-Hispanics to rely on family for their long-term care needs, much less in known about how this relationship changes over the elderly lif...

Mexico, the southernmost country of North American, borders the northern countries of Central America, Guatemala, and Belize. However, the main flows of Central American nationals headed to the United States usually cross Mexico's border with Guatemala. The most trafficked part of the border is along the Mexican state of Chiapas, a predominantly agricultural and impoverished area home to a larg...

Obituary: Charles Benedict Davenport: DR. OSCAR RIDDLE. Leroy Sheldon Palmer: DR. CORNELIA KENNEDY. Deaths and Memorials .................. 441 Scientific Events: The Hall of Mexican and Central American Archeology of 'the American Museum of Natural History; The Munsell Foundation to Promote Color Standardization; The North Carolina State College Chapter of the Society of the Sigma Xi; Election...

OBJECTIVE To describe 2 cases of lipoid pneumonia in Mexican American infants after administration of vegetable- or animal-derived oils and the cultural barriers to diagnosis. Various folk remedies have been documented in the international medical literature that involve the oral or nasal administration of vegetable- or animal-derived oils to children for the treatment of common ailments, inclu...

The present study tested whether empathic accuracy and physiological linkage during an emotion recognition task are facilitated by a cultural match between rater and target (cultural advantage model) or unaffected (cultural equivalence model). Participants were 161 college students of African American, Chinese American, European American, or Mexican American ethnicity. To assess empathic accura...

Globally half of all diabetes mellitus is undiagnosed. We sought to determine the extent and characteristics of undiagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus and pre-diabetes in Mexican Americans residing in the United States. This disadvantaged population with 50% lifetime risk of diabetes is a microcosm of the current pandemic. We accessed baseline data between 2004 and 2014 from 2,838 adults recruite...