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Loss of a Healthy Weight Advantage Among Mexican-American Children

NCT03261882 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 11987

Last updated 2017-08-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Although research indicates foreign-born Mexican-Americans possess a healthy weight advantage relative to U.S.-born Mexican-Americans, patterns are less clear for children and may be changing over time. The objective of this study was to examine whether the relationship between nativity and overweight/obesity has changed over time among Mexican-American children and to investigate the implications of this pattern on overweight/obesity disparities relative to non-Hispanic Whites. Using cross-sectional data from Mexican-Americans and non-Hispanic white children ages 4-17 years participating in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (1988-1994 (N=4,718) and 2005-2014 (N=7,269), the investigators used log-binomial regression to calculate prevalence ratios (PR) of overweight/obesity by nativity status adjusting for age, sex, householder marital status, householder education, survey period and a nativity by survey period interaction. The investigators also tested another covariate-adjusted model with a 3-level ethnicity-nativity variable that included Whites and an ethnicity-nativity by survey period interaction.

Conditions

  • Overweight and Obesity

Interventions

OTHER

Nativity

Mexican-American children were subdivided into two groups based on their country of birth. Mexican-American children who were not born in the U.S. were considered foreign-born and those born in the U.S. were U.S.-born.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Min Age
4 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-06-01
Primary Completion
2017-07-30
Completion
2017-07-30

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