title: Risk factors for cardiovascular disease among Mexican-American adults in the United States and Mexico: a comparative study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in a cohort of Mexican health workers with representative samples of US-born and Mexico-born Mexican-Americans living in the US.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were obtained from the Mexican Health Worker Cohort Study (MHWCS) in Mexico and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) IV 1999-2006 in the US. Regression analyses were used to investigate CVD risk factors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In adjusted analyses, NHANES participants were more likely than MHWCS participants to have hypertension, high total cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, and abdominal obesity, and were less likely to have low HDL cholesterol and smoke. Less-educated men and women were more likely to have low HDL cholesterol, obesity, and abdominal obesity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this binational study, men and women enrolled in the MHWCS appear to have fewer CVD risk factors than US-born and Mexico-born Mexican-American men and women living in the US.
authors.affiliation: Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, EUA.
authors.forename: Leo S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Morales
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Policy and Management, Fielding School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, EUA.
authors.forename: Yvonne N
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Flores
authors.affiliation: Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, EUA.
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leng
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors.forename: Noémie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sportiche
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors.forename: Katia
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gallegos-Carrillo
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Salmerón
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult