Adiposity, biological markers of disease, and insulin resistance in Mexican American adolescents, 2004-2005.

Introduction: Rates of obesity and overweight, which frequently lead to type 2 diabetes, have increased dramatically among US children during the past 30 years. We analyzed associations between insulin resistance and other markers of disease in a sample of Mexican American adolescents from a severely disadvantaged community on the Texas-Mexico border.

Methods: We analyzed results from 325 students from 1 high school in this descriptive study.