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  • Neck circumference as an indicator of elevated central adiposity in children

  • Evelyn Valencia-Sosa, Clío Chávez-Palencia, Enrique Romero-Velarde, Alfredo Larrosa-Haro, Edgar Manuel Vásquez-Garibay, César Octavio Ramos-García
  • Journal:
    Public Health Nutrition / Volume 22 / Issue 10 / July 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 April 2019, pp. 1755-1761
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  • Objective

    We aimed to study the correlation between neck circumference (NC) and anthropometric adiposity indicators, and to determine cut-off points of NC for both sexes to identify elevated central adiposity in schoolchildren in western Mexico.

    Design

    Cross-sectional study.

    Setting

    Rural settings in western México.

    Participants

    Children from a convenience sample of six schools in Acatlán, Jalisco, Mexico (n 1802).

    Results

    NC showed a strong positive correlation with all anthropometric adiposity indicators in both sexes, which were notably higher in boys regardless of age. Noteworthy, waist circumference displayed the highest significant correlation when analysed by both age and sex. As age increased, NC cut-off points to identify elevated central adiposity ranged from 25·7 to 30·1 cm for girls and from 27·5 to 31·7 cm for boys.

    Conclusions

    NC could be used as a simple, inexpensive and non-invasive indicator for central obesity assessment in Mexican schoolchildren.

  • Toward a New Agenda for the Study of Religion in the Americas

  • Manuel A. Vásquez
  • Journal:
    Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs / Volume 41 / Issue 4 / Winter 1999
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 1-20
    Print publication:
    Winter 1999

  • Recent scholarly work on Latin American religion reflects the pluralism and fragmentation of both religion and civil society. What effect will religious practice at the local, “micro” level have on institutions and structures at the “macro” level-namely, the process of democratization? A deeper, simultaneously more foundational and more encompassing definition of democratic politics might be involved. In an increasingly global context, the study of religion and social change in Latin America and among U.S. Latinos needs to take a comparative, truly interamerican approach.