Physical activity and overweight among adolescents on the Texas-Mexico border La actividad física y el sobrepeso en adolescentes que viven en la frontera mexicanoestadounidense

• Main Authors: Adriana Pérez, Belinda M. Reininger, María Isabel Aguirre Flores, Maureen Sanderson, Robert E. Roberts
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2006
• Subjects: Obesidad; peso corporal; acondicionamiento físico; adolescente; Americanos Mexicanos; México; Texas; Overweight; obesity; physical fitness; adolescent; Mexican Americans; Mexico; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Grande Valley
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/0cc75608d950406190aea512e7ed3224

OBJECTIVE: To investigate differences in associations between physical activity and over-weight for students in two adjacent areas on the border between Mexico and the United States of America: students in the city of Matamoros, Mexico, and Mexican-American students in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (L...