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. 2012 Dec 10;172(22):1760-2.
doi: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.77.

Mexico-United States migration and the prevalence of obesity: a transnational perspective

Karen R Flórez, Tamara Dubowitz, Naomi Saito, Guilherme Borges, Joshua Breslau

Mexico-United States migration and the prevalence of obesity: a transnational perspective

Karen R Flórez et al. Arch Intern Med. .
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Conflict of interest statement

There are no conflicts of interest for any of the authors, and each of their contribution is as follows. Overall integrity of the work from inception to publication: Flórez, Dubowitz, Breslau. Design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data: Flórez, Dubowitz, Saito, Borges, Breslau. Preparation and review of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Flórez, Dubowitz, Saito, Borges, Breslau. Final approval of the version to be published: Flórez, Dubowitz, Saito, Borges, Breslau. We are grateful to Dr. Kathryn Derose, Kristin Leuschner, Dr. Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola and Dr. Maria Elena Medina-Mora for providing comments on this manuscript.

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Figure 1. Relative Odds of Obesity Associated with Migration in Mexico and the United States
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