The Hispanic paradox in the prevalence of obesity at the county‐level

• Main Authors: Areli Valencia (Author), Bongeka Z. Zuma (Author), Gabriela Spencer‐Bonilla (Author), Lenny López (Author), David Scheinker (Author), Fatima Rodriguez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wiley, 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective The percentage of Hispanics in a county has a negative association with prevalence of obesity. Because Hispanic individuals are unevenly distributed in the United States, this study examined whether this protective association persists when stratifying counties into quartiles base...