Weight status of Mexican immigrant women: a comparison with women in Mexico and with US-born Mexican American women.

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Published in Am J Public Health on July 18, 2013

Authors

Sylvia D Guendelman1, Miranda L Ritterman-Weintraub, Lia C H Fernald, Martha Kaufer-Horwitz

Author Affiliations

1: University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. sylviag@berkeley.edu

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