Angela Lis, Lauren Snowdon, Kyle Downey
Lessons Learned After Integrating the Five Steps of Evidence-Based Practice Into a Doctor of Physical Therapy Curriculum
Journal, physical therapy education
hispanic immigrants fastgrowing population united states america usa disproportionately suffer chronic diseases despite increasing prevalence obesity latinamerican countries studies examined onset chronic diseases mexican central american migrants mexico objective study determine prevalence obesity diabetes hypertension central american immigrants process traveling northeastern mexico united states observational descriptive crosssectional study conducted among migrants mostly central americans migrants agreed participate study interviewed facetoface researchers obtain sociodemographic data obtain prevalence many health indicators related obesity diabetes hypertension including weight height fasting glucose blood pressure measured total 520 migrants interviewed sociodemographic data indicated participants men 76 honduras 726 single 612 elementary level education 486 somatometric evaluation revealed 289 diagnosed overweight 107 obesity 33 malnutrition less prevalence 88 detected hypertension 46 fasting hyperglycemia mean participant age 2911 1000 years participant average weight 6672 1309 kg average height 164 008 average body mass index bmi 2459 432 mean systolic diastolic pressures 11626 1513 74 965 respectively average glycemia 10097 2199 el salvador showed highest proportion people diabetes 147 women participated study higher proportion obesity 234 p 002 overweight 362 men 84 292 respectively people mexico nicaragua honduras reported high prevalence overweight participants 636 474 307 respectively people el salvador nicaragua high prevalence obese participants 235 211 respectively found significant differences rates obesity diabetes hypertension groups central american migrants place origin age educational level gender findings highlight importance exploring differences within groups central american migrants traveling northeastern mexico united states may explain several health indicators