A study by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) found that overweight Hispanic children are at significant risk for pre-diabetes, a condition marked by higher than normal blood ...
... , Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, states, "The diets of these low-SES Hispanic children were adequate in most essential nutrients, but suboptimal for the promotion of long-term ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 27 (UPI) -- Fotonovelas provide information while using photography and a minimum of text to help Hispanic children learn to read, a U.S. literacy group said.
... to care, such as socioeconomic status and health insurance, Hispanic children still got specialized care at ... the Hopkins team found.
"If you're a Hispanic child diagnosed with a brain tumor, you're ...
... analyzed data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health, a telephone survey measuring regular ... example, 22.5 percent of immigrant Hispanic children were physically inactive compared with 9.5 ...
... to receive free samples than white non-Hispanic children, and free sample receipt was positively ... does not equalize medication access for needy children.
Dr. Cutrona, a physician at Cambridge Health ...
... median income $43,077). Black and Hispanic children also were more likely to have Medicaid insurance (58 ... death while awaiting a heart transplant in children listed for transplant," said T. P. Singh ...
... the same time period. (23 percent in 2006). Hispanic children now constitute the largest proportions of uninsured children and those reporting no USC. Private offices continued ...
... below what's considered healthy, and that black and Hispanic children are at particularly high risk.
Both ... representative sample of roughly 5,000 children from 2001-2006. Extrapolating to the entire U ...
... 2 to 5 years) and 107 adolescents (ages 9 to 18 years). The study included black, white and Hispanic children, including obese toddlers and adolescents.
The researchers found: There ...
... treat excess weight gain and its consequences in children and teens, according to several reports published in the April ... Indian/Native Alaskan children, 22 percent of Hispanic children, 20.8 percent ...
... association was not significant for whites.
Other findings included:
Among Hispanic children, those who reported perceived discrimination were more likely to have symptoms of each of the ...
... 13 sites. However, in further analyses reported elsewhere, Shattuck and colleagues have found that Black and Hispanic children who meet diagnostic criteria for autism are much less likely to actually ...
... looked at a racially and ethnically diverse group of children and young people with diabetes and compared them ... broken down by race/ethnicity, 28% of Hispanic children and youths with type 1 diabetes ...
... , or Texas. The analysis showed that, compared with Caucasian children, African-American and Hispanic children had more indicators of poorly controlled asthma, including increased emergency health- ...
