American journal of preventive medicine
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Physical inactivity is more prevalent among racial and ethnic minorities than among Caucasians. It is not known if differences in participation in leisure time physical activity are due to differences in social class. Thus, this paper provides estimates of the prevalence of physical inactivity during leisure time and its relationship to race/ethnicity and social class. ⋯ Current indicators of social class do not seem to explain the higher prevalence of physical inactivity during leisure time among African-American and Mexican-American. More research is needed to examine the effect of other constructs of social class such as acculturation, safety, social support and environmental barriers in promoting successful interventions to increase physical activity in these populations.
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This report determines the extent to which young adults in the highest and lowest intake quintiles of 13 nutrients remain in the same or adjacent quintiles (i.e., "tracked") relative to each other, over 7 years. ⋯ Ingrained dietary habits may cause high- or low-intake groups to retain relative ranking, even in the face of secular, age-, or lifestyle-related trends in dietary intake.
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Comparative Study
Demographic predictors of cancer screening among Filipino and Korean immigrants in the United States.
Little is known about cancer-screening practices of various Asian subgroups, and even less is known about factors that may predict screening in these populations. ⋯ These two variables-percent of lifetime in the United States and ever having had a checkup when no symptoms were present-can alert a physician that cancer-screening tests may be overdue among Korean and Filipino immigrants in the United States. Future research should identify predictors of cancer screening among other Asian immigrant groups and U.S.-born Asian women to assist in targeting intervention efforts.