OBJECTIVE Evidence has shown that Mexican Americans have a higher prevalence of diabetes and a greater risk for diabetes-related complications than non-Hispanic whites. However, no studies have described the changes in prevalence among older Mexican Americans. The purpose of this study was to expand on the current literature by examining the trends in diabetes prevalence and diabetes-related co...

Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor d...

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...

INTRODUCTION The US-Mexico border region has 15 million residents and 300,000 births annually. Reproductive health concerns have been identified on both sides of the border, but comparable information about reproductive health is not available. The objective of this study was to compare reproductive health indicators among populations in this region. METHODS We used 2009 US Hispanic and Mexic...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined weight transitions in contemporary multi-ethnic populations spanning early childhood through adulthood despite the ability of such research to inform obesity prevention, control, and disparities reduction. METHODS AND RESULTS We characterized the ages at which African American, Caucasian, and Mexican American populations transitioned to overweight and obes...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Mexican population. MATERIALS AND METHODS Population based prospective study. At baseline (1990), the population at risk (1939 non-diabetic adults 35-64 years) was evaluated with oral glucose tolerance test. Subsequent similar evaluations were done (1994, 1998, 2008). American Diabetes Association diagnostic criteria were applied...

BACKGROUND Research has found that diet and dietary patterns are associated with blood pressure and hypertension. Limited research in this area has been conducted in a Mexican population. METHODS We investigated the relation between dietary patterns (principal component analysis) and the incidence of self-reported treated hypertension in 62,913 women from the Mexican Teachers' Cohort, a large...

The risk of type 2 diabetes in Mexican-Americans is almost twice that of non-Hispanic Caucasians (1). Mexican-Americans are also, in general, more likely to have insulin resistance, impaired fasting glucose, and impaired glucose tolerance than non-Hispanic Caucasians (1,2). Given these increased risks of type 2 diabetes in the MexicanAmerican population and the fact that poor glycemic control i...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke risk after transient ischemic attack (TIA) has not been examined in an ethnically diverse population-based community setting. The purpose of this study was to identify stroke risk among TIA patients in a population-based cerebrovascular disease surveillance project. METHODS The Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) Project prospectively ascertains s...

We assessed the impact of the NCEP-III recommendations in a population-based, nation-wide Mexican survey. Information was obtained from 15,607 subjects aged 20 to 69 years. In this report, only samples obtained after a 9 to 12 hours fast are included (2,201 cases). A cardiovascular risk equivalent was found in 10.5% and > or = 2 risk factors were present in 41.7% of the population. In 10% of ca...