The current and long-term health of 14.4 million children and adolescents is affected by
obesity, 1, 2 making it one of the most common pediatric chronic diseases. 3–5 Long …

The concepts of allostasis (stability through adaptation) and accumulated life stress
(McEwen's allostatic load) aim to understand childhood and adult outcomes. Chronic …

Latino youth have the highest rate of overweight and obesity across ethnic and racial
groups, placing these individuals at increased risk for a variety of negative immediate and …

Using the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (LA FANS-2; n= 1610), we explore
the link between Mexican immigrant acculturation, diet, exercise and obesity. We distinguish …

Los Latinos son el grupo racial y étnico más grande en la nación y aun el conocimiento de
la salud física de este grupo no es tan bien documentada o entendida en relación con otros …

Persons of Mexican origin and some other Latino groups in the United States have
experienced a survival advantage compared with their non-Latino White counterparts, a …

Little research has examined associations of social support with diabetes (or other physical
health outcomes) in Hispanics, who are at elevated risk. We examined associations …

Purpose This article describes the design and methodology of the Study of Latino Youth
(SOL Youth) study, a multicenter study of Hispanic/Latino children living in the United States …

Objective: This paper reviews available studies on the relationship between acculturation
and obesity among children of immigrants who have at least one foreign-born parent …

Immigrants' health (dis) advantages are increasingly recognized as not being uniform,
leading to calls for studies investigating whether immigrant health outcomes are dependent …