Migration as a determinant of childhood obesity in the United States and Latin America

M Vilar‐Compte, AV Bustamante… - Obesity …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… tackling childhood obesity in migrant households from Mexico. … if migrant networks were a
significant predictor of childhoodchildren of Mexican origin influence their Latina mothers' diet: …

The social environment and childhood obesity: Implications for research and practice in the United States and countries in Latin America

GX Ayala, R Monge‐Rojas, AC King, R Hunter… - Obesity …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… among the strongest predictors of child consumption of fruits and … importance of the process
of migration as an important social … US Hispanic/Latinx children of Mexican origin, frequent …

Influences of maternal acculturation on early childhood obesity risk: From countries to chromosomes

L Aguayo - 2018 - ideals.illinois.edu
obesity risks of young Mexican children living in the US and … countries, early childhood weight
gain is a predictor of height … the contribution of maternal acculturation (from immigration or …

Higher birthweight and maternal pre-pregnancy BMI persist with obesity association at age 9 in high risk Latino children

TW Kjaer, D Faurholt-Jepsen, R Medrano… - Journal of immigrant and …, 2019 - Springer
Mexican Americans are the largest group of Latino children … infant and maternal risk factors
as predictors for obesity in high… -report as was language use, immigration status and ethnicity. …

Body mass index in mother and child dyads and its association with household size and parents' education in 2 urban settings of Yucatan, Mexico

P Cauich-Viñas, H Azcorra… - Food and nutrition …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
… for rural-to-urban Maya migrants. Maya people residing in … BMI-based nutritional status in
motherchild dyads. Household size and parent’s education (years) were used as predictors

Measurement challenges for childhood obesity research within and between Latin America and the United States

D Berrigan, SS Arteaga, U Colón‐Ramos… - Obesity …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… as predictors of longitudinal changes in weight status in … with overweight and obesity in
Mexican immigrant women. … Migration as a determinant of childhood obesity in the United …

An ecological approach to obesity in Mexican American children

E Reifsnider, M Jeong, P Chatterjee - Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 2020 - Elsevier
mothers were not asked any questions about immigration … and microsystem in childhood
obesity in specific analyses, … found maternal employment to be significantly higher in the obese

Short relative leg length is associated with overweight and obesity in Mexican immigrant women

M Vilar-Compte, J Macinko, BC Weitzman… - International journal for …, 2019 - Springer
… good health and social mobility in these mothers’ offspring [12]. … Puebla State, Mexico who
had recently migrated to the New … of adiposity and rurality, predictive margins of LLI interacted …

Early life factors for overweight risk among infants of Hispanic immigrant mothers

KF Gaffney, DA Kermer, P Kitsantas, AV Brito… - Journal of Pediatric …, 2019 - Elsevier
childhood obesity in prior research with other populations, but limited evidence is available
concerning the early predictors of long-term health outcomes for childrenimmigration status. …

Rural-to-urban migration: socioeconomic status but not acculturation was associated with overweight/obesity risk

A Hilmers, A Bernabé-Ortiz, RH Gilman… - Journal of immigrant and …, 2016 - Springer
… Only SES was a significant predictor of overweight/obesity … a higher prevalence of
overweight/obesity in groups with the … migrants, SES was positively associated with their BMI