Immigrant Generation and Diabetes Risk Among Mexican Americans

The Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging

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ID8104290
AuthorsAimee Afable-Munsuz (At the time the analysis was conducted, Aimee Afable-Munsuz was a research fellow with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Elizabeth Rose Mayeda and Mary N. Haan are with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable is with the Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of...), Aimee Afable‐munsuz (corresponding author), Elizabeth Rose Mayeda (0000-0002-6326-0163, At the time the analysis was conducted, Aimee Afable-Munsuz was a research fellow with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Elizabeth Rose Mayeda and Mary N. Haan are with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable is with the Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of...), Eliseo J Pérez-Stable (0000-0002-1577-2738, At the time the analysis was conducted, Aimee Afable-Munsuz was a research fellow with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Elizabeth Rose Mayeda and Mary N. Haan are with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable is with the Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of...), Mary N Haan (0000-0001-9312-4501, At the time the analysis was conducted, Aimee Afable-Munsuz was a research fellow with the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Elizabeth Rose Mayeda and Mary N. Haan are with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable is with the Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of...)
Year2013
Volume103
Issue5
Pagese45-e52
Publication date2013-03-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2012.300969
PMID23488481
PMCIDPMC3686633
OpenAlexW2028396795
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited76

Our study lends support to the previously contested notion that assimilation is associated with an increased diabetes risk in Mexican immigrants. Researchers should examine the presence of a causal link between assimilation and health more closely

Diabetes mellitus · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Geography · Immigration · Mexican americans · Sociology · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Demography · Gerontology

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