Hispanic California Research Articles

Abstract 14363: Clustering of Multiple Cardiometabolic Risk Factors by Race/Ethnicity and Age

Introduction: Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is the leading cause of death among Americans. The burden of cardiometabolic risk factor clustering in ethnic subgroups is not well described for US Asians compared to other race/ethnicities. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted using electronic health data for White (N=634,200), Black (N=85,156), Hispanic (N=188,071), Filipino (N=78,000) and Chinese (N=72,545) Kaiser Permanente Northern California health plan members in 2016 who were aged 40-84y and had weight status assessed. We examined the proportions of men and women in each racial/ethnic group with clustered cardiometabolic risks (CCR), defined as having diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. Diabetes mellitus (DM) was based on a clinical DM diagnosis, lab criteria, or receipt of DM pharmacotherapy. Hypertension was defined by clinical diagnosis. Obesity was characterized by WHO standard (BMI ≥30 kg/m 2 ) and Asian-specific (BMI ≥27.5 kg/m 2 ) thresholds. Results: CCR prevalence varied by race/ethnicity, age, and the BMI criteria used for obesity (standard or Asian threshold). Use of the Asian threshold resulted in Filipinos having CCR prevalence that approached Blacks and Hispanics across all age groups (Figure). The Asian criterion nearly doubled the proportion of at-risk Filipinos, particularly older adults aged 65-84y. Filipinos had more than 2x higher CCR prevalence compared to Chinese. Among all ethnic groups except for Blacks, men were more likely than women to have CCR. Conclusion: Using an Asian-specific BMI obesity threshold, Filipino-Americans have a higher prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factor clustering than Chinese-Americans, resembling that of Blacks and Hispanics. Identifying Asian ethnicity in electronic health records could help facilitate earlier metabolic assessment and management to further reduce CVD burden, which may be especially important for men.

Hispanic, English Learner, and Low-Income Parental Magnet Middle School Choice in a Majority Hispanic California Community

Prior research suggests that parents of Hispanics, English learners, and students living in poverty exercise school choice less frequently than other parents, which may be a factor in the resegregation of public schools. This quasi-experimental, causal–comparative design tests whether ethnicity, language dominance, or socioeconomic status of the student are related to the exercise of parental choice of magnet middle school programs in a majority, minority community. The primary finding was that in this Hispanic, English learner, low-income majority California community, none of the independent variables studied predicted the exercise of parental magnet school choice. The discussion compares these findings with prior studies and suggests some possible explanations.

Health behavior knowledge among Hispanic California islanders: Evaluation of a parental educational intervention

To evaluate the impact of a school nurse-led pilot parent-focused education program for healthy eating and physical activity to reduce childhood obesity. A quasi-experimental intervention design was used to assess the knowledge of 11 Hispanic mothers regarding healthy food choices and physical activity over a period of 1 year. There was an improvement in parental knowledge domains. Children's body mass index (BMI) stabilized at the 1-year follow-up in the intervention group, while the BMI increased in the nonintervention group. Outcomes included improvement in parental health knowledge and children's BMI. Pediatric and school nurses have a powerful role in preventive education. Knowledge gained by identifying the benefits of healthy food choices and physical activity for Hispanic mothers of obese children can be transformed into lifestyle changes for their children's weight control that begins in the home.

Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California: Craft, Economy, and Trade on the Frontier of New Spain. By Russell K. Skowronek, M. James Blackman, and Ronald L. Bishop (Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 2014) 440 pp. $84.95

<i>Ceramic Production in Early Hispanic California: Craft, Economy, and Trade on the Frontier of New Spain</i>. By Russell K. Skowronek, M. James Blackman, and Ronald L. Bishop (Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 2014) 440 pp. $84.95

Ceramic production in early Hispanic California: craft, economy, and trade on the frontier of New Spain

Ceramic production in early Hispanic California: craft, economy, and trade on the frontier of New Spain

Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Among Patients in Baja California, Mexico, and Hispanic Patients in California

We sought to compare prevalence and determinants of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) between tuberculosis patients in Baja California, Mexico, and Hispanic patients in California. Using data from Mexico's National TB Drug Resistance Survey (2008-2009) and California Department of Public Health TB case registry (2004-2009), we assessed differences in MDR-TB prevalence comparing (1) Mexicans in Baja California, (2) Mexico-born Hispanics in California, (3) US-born Hispanics in California, and (4) California Hispanics born elsewhere. MDR-TB prevalence was 2.1% in Baja California patients, 1.6% in Mexico-born California patients, 0.4% in US-born California patients, and 2.7% in Hispanic California patients born elsewhere. In multivariate analysis, previous antituberculosis treatment was associated with MDR-TB (odds ratio [OR] = 6.57; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 3.34, 12.96); Mexico-born TB patients in California (OR = 5.08; 95% CI = 1.19, 21.75) and those born elsewhere (OR = 7.69; 95% CI = 1.71, 34.67) had greater odds of MDR-TB compared with US-born patients (reference category). Hispanic patients born outside the US or Mexico were more likely to have MDR-TB than were those born within these countries. Possible explanations include different levels of exposure to resistant strains and inadequate treatment.

Searching for Joaquin: myth, Murieta and history in California

On a hot July dawn in 1853, a gunfight took place on the western edge of the San Valley, midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. When the smoke cleared, Murrieta, one of the most notorious bandits of the Gold Rush lay dead. Soon his severed head was traveling around the new state of California in a pickling jar. Murrieta would have an unparalleled afterlife in dime novels and movies, Mexican folksongs and Gold-Rush legends. Anglos regarded him as a homegrown Robin Hood, while Mexicans on both sides of the border celebrated him as an enemy of Yankee rule. And as the legendary bandit's myth grew and his deeds and death were celebrated throughout the world, every detail of his story, down to the color of his eyes, was debated and contested. Not until Bruce Thornton has anyone tried to unravel his legend from his life and to understand the meanings Murrieta has acquired on his way to literary and cultural immortality. A penetrating look at the life and times of a celebrated bad man, Searching for Joaquin also probes the role Murrieta has played in the myth of the old Hispanic California, that sunlit lazy land of missions and ranchos, moonlit plazas and fiestas, high passion and derring-do. As Thornton shows, that myth is accepted as history by many even today, and Murrieta continues to play many roles: the chivalric outlaw who settles conflict with violence; and the emblem of a simpler world where life is lived more intensely and passionately; and most of all, the avenging angel who rectifies Anglo misdeeds against powerless Hispanics. Searching for Joaquin opens a window onto a vanished past and also shows how myth and history flow in and out of each other and continue to affect the way we live now.

A Year of mud and gold: San Francisco in letters and diaries, 1849-1850

Here are the letters and diaries of ordinary men and women caught up in the rapid transformation of San Francisco during its gold rush heyday, 1849-50. Together these accounts render a rich mosaic of San Francisco's metamorphosis from a small Mexican outpost into a rough-and-tumble boomtown filled with gamblers and prostitutes, evangelists and entrepreneurs - men, women, and children from all parts of the country, arriving in California with the dream of striking it rich. The correspondents come from a variety of economic and social backgrounds. Some are barely literate, while others craft prose on par with the finest nineteenth-century travel literature. Their writings address a broad range of concerns, from business prospects and consumer prices to social mores and popular amusements. The letters and diaries also hold clues to processes central to frontier history: the Americanization of Hispanic California, the stresses that migration placed on individuals and families, the fluidity of boomtown economies, and the nature of gender and race relations in an urban population of immigrants. William Benemann is head of technical services at Boalt Hall Law School Library and a former librarian at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.

Fray Estevan Tapis, O.F.M. (1754-1825)

Shortly of Fray Junipero Serra, O.F.M., the late Maynard J. Geiger, О. F. M., entertained the idea of preparing a single volume about the other presidentes of the California missions. It was suggested that it might be preferable first to compile a biographical work that would include all the friars who worked along California's EI Camino Real That book was subsequently published by the Huntington Library under the title Franciscan Missionaries in Hispanic California, 1769-1848 in 1968.

Review: Building and Builders in Hispanic California, 1769-1850 by Mardith K. Schuetz-Miller

Review: Building and Builders in Hispanic California, 1769-1850 by Mardith K. Schuetz-Miller

Review: Hispanic California Revisited: Essays by Francis F. Guest, O.F.M., by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.

Review: <i>Hispanic California Revisited: Essays by Francis F. Guest, O.F.M.</i>, by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.

Hispanic California Revisited: Essays by Francis F. Guest, O.F.M. ed. by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.

Hispanic California Revisited: Essays by Francis F. Guest, O.F.M. ed. by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.

Building and Builders in Hispanic California, 1769-1850.

Building and Builders in Hispanic California, 1769-1850.

Building and Builders in Hispanic California, 1769–1850

Building and Builders in Hispanic California, 1769–1850

Rancheras and the Land: Women and Property Rights in Hispanic California

Research Article| April 01 1994 Rancheras and the Land: Women and Property Rights in Hispanic California Gloria Ricci Lothrop Gloria Ricci Lothrop Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (1994) 76 (1): 59–84. https://doi.org/10.2307/41171702 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Gloria Ricci Lothrop; Rancheras and the Land: Women and Property Rights in Hispanic California. Southern California Quarterly 1 April 1994; 76 (1): 59–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41171702 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentSouthern California Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1994 Historical Society of Southern California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

MEXICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY CALIFORNIA: THE LUMMIS WAX CYLINDER COLLECTION AT THE SOUTHWEST MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES

In 1904 Charles Lummis began a large project to record Spanish-language folk, popular and theatre songs onto wax cylinders. These cylinder recordings of Mexican-Californian, Mexican, and Spanish music, recorded by some thirty-five local Southern California informants and visitors to California, may well be the earliest non-commercial field recordings of Spanish secular songs in existence. This article will examine the history and importance of the Lummis Wax Cylinder Collection, the social and personal aspect of music making in Hispanic California, the place of music in the lives of some of Lummis's singers, and the genres and sources of Hispanic-American music.

Smoking, Respiratory Symptoms, and Pulmonary Function Among a Population of Hispanic Farmworkers

We conducted a cross-sectional study in the agricultural Central Valley to evaluate the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, smoking status, and pulmonary function in Hispanic California farmworkers. Of 759 farmworkers completing questionnaires and spirometry, 747 were Hispanic. The prevalences of current, former, and never smokers (29, 17, and 54 percent, respectively) were comparable to rates in other studies of Hispanics, but daily cigarette consumption (median-five for men and three for women) was lower than in comparison populations. Prevalences of chronic cough, chronic phlegm, and persistent wheeze were low (1.6, 5.1, and 2.8 percent, respectively). Current smoking, increased age, female sex, and working greater than or equal to 8 months per year in agriculture were associated with increased prevalence of respiratory symptoms. Adjusted lung function was higher than for reference populations. Hispanic California farmworkers have a similar smoking prevalence to other Hispanic populations, but lower respiratory symptom prevalences and higher pulmonary function are consistent with lower daily cigarette consumption and the "healthy worker effect."

Domestic Architecture in Hispanic California: The Monterey Style Reconsidered

Domestic Architecture in Hispanic California: The Monterey Style Reconsidered

The Function of Prints in the California Missions

HISTORY these details may not seem of major importance in themselves and often have been ignored, but they can take on significance as they fill gaps in our understanding of the life of a given period. Thus it is with prints in Hispanic California. When one thinks of the devotional art of the California missions one thinks exclusively of paintings and statuary, yet an examination of the surviving records shows that engravings and other types of prints belong in the same category.

California Ranchos: Their Hispanic Heritage

Research Article| October 01 1985 California Ranchos: Their Hispanic Heritage Iris H. W. Engstrand Iris H. W. Engstrand Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Southern California Quarterly (1985) 67 (3): 281–290. https://doi.org/10.2307/41171160 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Iris H. W. Engstrand; California Ranchos: Their Hispanic Heritage. Southern California Quarterly 1 October 1985; 67 (3): 281–290. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41171160 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentSouthern California Quarterly Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1985 The Historical Society of Southern California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.