A study led by Health Policy and Management Professor and Chair Thomas LaVeist made an important contribution by parsing out more details about the racial and ethnic identities of Hispanic men, who tend to have the highest prevalence of obesity compared with non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic black men. In an article published in the American Journal of Men’s Health, LaVeist’s team examined the relationship between race/ethnicity, obesity, and nativity in data from 11 years (2002-2012) of the National Health Interview Survey. The obesity prevalence differences that the researchers identified include a higher prevalence among Puerto Rican and Mexican American men.
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