Helen P Hazuda
Biographic Data
| ID | 5133041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen P Hazuda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen P |
| FAMILY NAME | Hazuda |
| SIGNATURE | HAZUDA H P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7313-4160 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Long-term impact of Diabetes Prevention Program interventions on walking endurance
Objectives: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and prediabetes are associated with poor walking endurance, a marker of physical function. We aimed to examine the long-term effects of metformin or intensive lifestyle intervention in adults at high risk of T2D on their 6-min walk test (6MWT) performance. Methods: Participants were randomized in the 3-year Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) to one of the three groups: lifestyle intervention, metformin, or placebo…
Patient-centered Involvement in Decision-Making
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Ideally, doctors ask each patient's current views about involvement in decision-making, but inquiries prove inconclusive with some inpatients. Doctors may then need indirect indicators of those views. We, therefore, explored ethnic group and sex as cultural indicators of patients' current preferences and perceptions about such involvement. METHODS: In open-response interviews, we asked those preferences and perceptions of 2…
Measuring Subclinical Disability in Older Mexican Americans
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive list of adaptive strategies to prevent disability and use this information to devise a preliminary measure of subclinical disability (state of sustained independence in the presence of latent or manifest functional limitations) suitable for older Mexican Americans. METHOD: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 24 community-dwelling Mexican American elders (> or =65 years …
Hopelessness Predicts Mortality in Older Mexican and European Americans
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between hopelessness and mortality in a biethnic cohort of older community-dwelling Mexican Americans, the most rapidly growing segment of the elderly, and European Americans. METHODS: A total of 795 persons aged 64 to 79 years completed an English or Spanish version of the 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale on entering the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging, an epidemiolo…
Race and the Delivery of Care
Effects of Acculturation and Socioeconomic Status on Obesity and Diabetes in Mexican Americans
The authors hypothesized that increased socioeconomic status and acculturation of Mexican Americans to mainstream US society would be accompanied by a progressive lessening of obesity and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. This hypothesis was tested in 1979-1982 in the San Antonio Heart Study, a population-based study of 1,288 Mexican Americans and 929 non-Hispanic whites, aged 25-64 years, randomly selected from three San Antonio neighborh…
Response from Dr. Diehl, et al
Response from Dr. Diehl, et al. Andrew K. Diehl, Steven M. Haffner, Helen P. Hazuda, and Michael P. Stern CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.78.1.100-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Coronary risk factors and clinical gallbladder disease
We examined the relationship of "coronary" risk factors to clinical gallbladder disease prevalence in a cross-sectional survey. Persons with hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, or low high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol levels had elevated risks for clinical gallbladder disease. Smokers of 20 pack-years or more and infrequent users of alcohol had increased risks, as did persons with hypertension or diabetes mellitus. After adjusting for …
A simple language-based acculturation scale for Mexican Americans
A simple scale for quantifying English use among Mexican Americans was constructed from four brief questions which proved to have excellent scaling characteristics by Guttman Scalogram Analysis in two independent data sets. Construct validity was established by significant associations of the scale with ethnicity, place of birth, generation within the United States, and type of neighborhood. Highly significant associations were found between scal…
Social class, admixture, and skin color variation in Mexican‐Americans and Anglo‐Americans living in San Antonio, Texas
Social class may act in different ways as a barrier to gene flow in urban populations, depending on ethnicity. We test the hypothesis that biological variation is affected by social class subdivision using skin reflectance data collected for 393 Anglo‐American and 930 Mexican‐American adults in the major urban population of San Antonio, Texas. Two socioeconomic groups were sampled for the Anglo‐American population: a middle‐income transitional gr…
Ethnicity and infant mortality in Texas Counties
An ecological analysis of infant mortality rates is conducted using data on Texas counties for the years 1968–72. It is found that when counties along the Texas‐Mexico border (which have unreasonably low infant death rates and which are economically less advantaged than the remainder of the counties) are excluded from the analysis, the associations between socioeconomic status variables and infant mortality rates improve considerably. A significa…
A simple language-based acculturation scale for Mexican Americans
A simple scale for quantifying English use among Mexican Americans was constructed from four brief questions which proved to have excellent scaling characteristics by Guttman Scalogram Analysis in two independent data sets. Construct validity was established by significant associations of the scale with ethnicity, place of birth, generation within the United States, and type of neighborhood. Highly significant associations were found between scal…
Social class, admixture, and skin color variation in Mexican‐Americans and Anglo‐Americans living in San Antonio, Texas
Social class may act in different ways as a barrier to gene flow in urban populations, depending on ethnicity. We test the hypothesis that biological variation is affected by social class subdivision using skin reflectance data collected for 393 Anglo‐American and 930 Mexican‐American adults in the major urban population of San Antonio, Texas. Two socioeconomic groups were sampled for the Anglo‐American population: a middle‐income transitional gr…
Coronary risk factors and clinical gallbladder disease
We examined the relationship of "coronary" risk factors to clinical gallbladder disease prevalence in a cross-sectional survey. Persons with hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, or low high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol levels had elevated risks for clinical gallbladder disease. Smokers of 20 pack-years or more and infrequent users of alcohol had increased risks, as did persons with hypertension or diabetes mellitus. After adjusting for …
Ethnicity and infant mortality in Texas Counties
An ecological analysis of infant mortality rates is conducted using data on Texas counties for the years 1968–72. It is found that when counties along the Texas‐Mexico border (which have unreasonably low infant death rates and which are economically less advantaged than the remainder of the counties) are excluded from the analysis, the associations between socioeconomic status variables and infant mortality rates improve considerably. A significa…
Ethnicity and infant mortality in Texas Counties
An ecological analysis of infant mortality rates is conducted using data on Texas counties for the years 1968–72. It is found that when counties along the Texas‐Mexico border (which have unreasonably low infant death rates and which are economically less advantaged than the remainder of the counties) are excluded from the analysis, the associations between socioeconomic status variables and infant mortality rates improve considerably. A significa…
Social class, admixture, and skin color variation in Mexican‐Americans and Anglo‐Americans living in San Antonio, Texas
Social class may act in different ways as a barrier to gene flow in urban populations, depending on ethnicity. We test the hypothesis that biological variation is affected by social class subdivision using skin reflectance data collected for 393 Anglo‐American and 930 Mexican‐American adults in the major urban population of San Antonio, Texas. Two socioeconomic groups were sampled for the Anglo‐American population: a middle‐income transitional gr…
A simple language-based acculturation scale for Mexican Americans
A simple scale for quantifying English use among Mexican Americans was constructed from four brief questions which proved to have excellent scaling characteristics by Guttman Scalogram Analysis in two independent data sets. Construct validity was established by significant associations of the scale with ethnicity, place of birth, generation within the United States, and type of neighborhood. Highly significant associations were found between scal…
Coronary risk factors and clinical gallbladder disease
We examined the relationship of "coronary" risk factors to clinical gallbladder disease prevalence in a cross-sectional survey. Persons with hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, or low high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol levels had elevated risks for clinical gallbladder disease. Smokers of 20 pack-years or more and infrequent users of alcohol had increased risks, as did persons with hypertension or diabetes mellitus. After adjusting for …
Effects of Acculturation and Socioeconomic Status on Obesity and Diabetes in Mexican Americans
The authors hypothesized that increased socioeconomic status and acculturation of Mexican Americans to mainstream US society would be accompanied by a progressive lessening of obesity and non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. This hypothesis was tested in 1979-1982 in the San Antonio Heart Study, a population-based study of 1,288 Mexican Americans and 929 non-Hispanic whites, aged 25-64 years, randomly selected from three San Antonio neighborh…
Response from Dr. Diehl, et al
Response from Dr. Diehl, et al. Andrew K. Diehl, Steven M. Haffner, Helen P. Hazuda, and Michael P. Stern CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.78.1.100-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Race and the Delivery of Care
Hopelessness Predicts Mortality in Older Mexican and European Americans
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between hopelessness and mortality in a biethnic cohort of older community-dwelling Mexican Americans, the most rapidly growing segment of the elderly, and European Americans. METHODS: A total of 795 persons aged 64 to 79 years completed an English or Spanish version of the 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale on entering the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging, an epidemiolo…
Measuring Subclinical Disability in Older Mexican Americans
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to develop a comprehensive list of adaptive strategies to prevent disability and use this information to devise a preliminary measure of subclinical disability (state of sustained independence in the presence of latent or manifest functional limitations) suitable for older Mexican Americans. METHOD: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 24 community-dwelling Mexican American elders (> or =65 years …
Patient-centered Involvement in Decision-Making
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Ideally, doctors ask each patient's current views about involvement in decision-making, but inquiries prove inconclusive with some inpatients. Doctors may then need indirect indicators of those views. We, therefore, explored ethnic group and sex as cultural indicators of patients' current preferences and perceptions about such involvement. METHODS: In open-response interviews, we asked those preferences and perceptions of 2…
Long-term impact of Diabetes Prevention Program interventions on walking endurance
Objectives: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and prediabetes are associated with poor walking endurance, a marker of physical function. We aimed to examine the long-term effects of metformin or intensive lifestyle intervention in adults at high risk of T2D on their 6-min walk test (6MWT) performance. Methods: Participants were randomized in the 3-year Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) to one of the three groups: lifestyle intervention, metformin, or placebo…
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