Socioeconomic Position, Rural Residence, and Marginality Influences on Obesity Status in the Adult Mexican Population

Sparks, P. Johnelle; Sparks, Corey S.

doi:10.1155/2012/757538

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“…The rationale for combining these 2 factors was that health-related behaviors and outcomes in Mexico appear to vary not only by region but also by area. 28 From an analytic point of view, this allowed to have a larger number of area factors to perform a 2-level mixed-effects analysis.…”

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Association Between Breastfeeding and Child Overweight in Mexico

2021

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Background: Globally, the prevalence of child overweight has increased over the past few decades. The largest burden of child overweight is identified among upper-middle-income countries, such as Mexico. Breastfeeding has been identified as one of the key affordable and modifiable maternal health behaviors protecting against child overweight. Objective: To examine the association between breastfeeding and child overweight while sequentially controlling for individual, household, and area factors in Mexican children. Methods: Secondary data analysis using the 2012 Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey which included risk factors for overweight on 2089 children aged 6 to 35 months and analyzed data to estimate fixed- and mixed-effects logistic regression models. Results: Overall, 9.0% of children were overweight and 71.1% of mothers reported any breastfeeding for ≥6 months. We found no evidence for a protective effect of any breastfeeding for ≥6 months on child overweight when compared to children who were never breastfed in the fully adjusted model and across all models (model 4, adjusted odds ratio [AOR] [95% CI] = 0.76 [0.31-1.86]). We identified risk factors for child overweight at the individual and area levels, with maternal obesity and offspring high birthweight being significant in the fully adjusted model and across all models (model 4, AOR [95% CI] = 2.26 [1.32-3.85] and 2.83 [1.44-5.56], correspondingly). Conclusions: Our results suggest shared obesogenic environment influences from which the overweight-obese maternal-child dyads are emerging in Mexican households. More research is needed to better understand these obesogenic environments grounded on the particular contexts among upper-middle-income countries.

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Association Between Breastfeeding and Child Overweight in Mexico

2021

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“…Despite the usefulness of multilevel models, few studies incorporate these analyses to examine health disparities between racial and ethnic groups [40, 41]. By examining cross-level interactions, multilevel analyses treat individual characteristics and neighborhood characteristics at their appropriate ecological levels to identify relationships among these characteristics.…”

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Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Age: Exploring Intersections in Preterm Birth Disparities among Teen Mothers

Coley

Nichols

Rulison

et al. 2015

International Journal of Population Research

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Few studies have examined disparities in adverse birth outcomes and compared contributing socioeconomic factors specifically between African-American and White teen mothers. This study examined intersections between neighborhood socioeconomic status (as defined by census-tract median household income), maternal age, and racial disparities in preterm birth (PTB) outcomes between African-American and White teen mothers in North Carolina. Using a linked dataset with state birth record data and socioeconomic information from the 2010 US Census, disparities in preterm birth outcomes for 16,472 teen mothers were examined through bivariate and multilevel analyses. African-American teens had significantly greater odds of PTB outcomes than White teens (OR = 1.38, 95% CI 1.21, 1.56). Racial disparities in PTB rates significantly varied by neighborhood income; PTB rates were 2.1 times higher for African-American teens in higher income neighborhoods compared to White teens in similar neighborhoods. Disparities in PTB did not vary significantly between teens younger than age 17 and teens ages 17-19, although the magnitude of racial disparities was larger between younger African-American and White teens. These results justify further investigations using intersectional frameworks to test the effects of racial status, neighborhood socioeconomic factors, and maternal age on birth outcome disparities among infants born to teen mothers.

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“…The USA non-local model appears to overestimate protein consumption across all locations, while use of the Mexico-specific parameters may underestimate protein consumption for the dataset. Studies on obesity and health in Mexico indicate that the majority of calories in the daily diet of Mexicans comes from carbohydrates (>60%) while proteins make up only ~11% of caloric intake (Heien et al, 1989;Fernald et al, 2004;Ruiz-Arregui et al, 2007;Ortiz-Hernández and Gómez-Tello, 2008;Sparks and Sparks, 2012). In principle, this supports the values for fs estimated in the Mexico non-local model.…”

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Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopes in Human Hair and Tap Water: Modeling Relationships in a Modern Mexican Population

Juarez¹,

Ramey²,

Flaherty³

et al. 2018

Human Biology

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This study investigates the relationship between O and H isotopes in samples of Mexican hairand drinking water. The purpose of this study was twofold. First, we wanted to quantify the relationship between isotopes in Mexican hair and tap water to understand the impact of water stress and differing socioeconomic status on accurate predictions of drinking water. Second, we wanted to determine whether currently existing semi mechanistic models could accurately represent the relationship between hair and tap water. For this study, we used a subset of paired (N = 62) human hair and (N = 76) tap water samples. Isotope values in tap water spanned a range from -11.4 ‰ to -4.3 ‰ and -79.1 ‰ to -22.5 ‰ for δ 18 O and δ 2 H, respectively. Isotope values in hair ranged from +9.5 ‰ to +16.1 ‰ and -90.8 ‰ to -53.7 ‰ for δ 18 O and δ 2 H, respectively.The most depleted δ 18 O and δ 2 H hair values came from individuals in the state of Morelos. For our modern Mexican population, positive correlations between isotopes in hair and water were not significant, with correlation coefficients of r = 0.61 (p = 0.05) and r = 0.60 (p = 0.06) for 18 O and 2 H respectively. Error-in-variables regression yielded linear fits that were somewhat better for 2 H relative to 18 O: δ 18 Oh = 0.183 [± 0.132] δ 18 Otw + 15.7 [± 0.9] ‰ (r 2 = 0.23); δ 2 Hh = 0.181 [± 0.076] δ 2 Htw -64.0 [± 3.0] ‰ (r 2 = 0.34). In short, data from this Mexican population do not exhibit the strong relationships between isotope values of 18 O and 2 H in tap water and hair that have been characteristic of other populations studied to date. Given the economic stratification of this region and the poor correlation between hair and water samples, we chose to consider the possibility that lthe fraction of the diet derived from local sources -and fsthe fraction of nonexchangeable H in keratin that was fixed in vivo-are local, rather than global, parameters for this population. We estimated a different value of l and fs for each location. Given the anticipated importance of the non-local dietary contribution, we treated the isotopic content of non-local

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Socioeconomic Position, Rural Residence, and Marginality Influences on Obesity Status in the Adult Mexican Population

Cited by 7 publications

References 39 publications

Association Between Breastfeeding and Child Overweight in Mexico

Association Between Breastfeeding and Child Overweight in Mexico

Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Age: Exploring Intersections in Preterm Birth Disparities among Teen Mothers

Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopes in Human Hair and Tap Water: Modeling Relationships in a Modern Mexican Population

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