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Childhood Obesity and Cardiometabolic Health among Impoverished Mexican Americans

Award Number: R01MD011599
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/07/2017
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2027

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Childhood Obesity and Cardiometabolic Health among Impoverished Mexican Americans - Substantial health inequities exist for Hispanic children. Recent national statistics indicate Hispanic youth are nearly twice as likely to be obese as non-Hispanic white youth. Cardiometabolic risk indicators are also elevated among Hispanic children relative to children of other ethnicities. The identification of risk and resiliency predictors of poor health during childhood and adolescence from a longitudinal and developmental perspective will provide specific targets amenable to preventive public health interventions. We propose to capitalize on longitudinal data collected by an NIH-funded study of very low-income Mexican American mothers and youth (Las Madres Nuevas) that assessed a multitude of cultural, biological, family, and environmental risk and protective factors from the prenatal period through ten years of age, including 13 objective measures of child weight and health beginning at birth. We propose to leverage this existing longitudinal dataset and evaluate weight gain and cardiometabolic health trajectories, and additional risk and resiliency factors at child ages 12-13 and 15-16. The COVID-19 pandemic and racial tensions in the U.S. provide natural ecological stressors that can disrupt normally-developing trajectories or worsen at-risk trajectories. With data collected recently on the impact of these stressors on youth, the project is ideally situated to examine health-related consequences of these significant social and environmental challenges. In combination, we will: 1) Examine trajectories of child weight gain from birth to age 15-16 years and associated cardiometabolic health consequences (e.g., blood pressure, HbA1c, cholesterol, CRP, IL-6); 2) Examine macro-level social, cultural, and environmental risk and protective factors (e.g., negative racial climate, concentrated disadvantage, neighborhood opportunity) that influence developmental trajectories in weight gain and cardiometabolic health. 3) Examine proximal influences (e.g., acculturation and cultural values; maternal and child mental health; family feeding and behavioral practices) on trajectories of weight gain and cardiometabolic health; 4) Conduct a nuanced examination of ecological and salient major life events (e.g., COVID, puberty) that potentially divert weight gain and cardiometabolic trajectories, focusing on the unique characteristics of youth who are relatively unaffected, recover, or are chronically affected. The proposed study utilizes data from biological measures, anthropometric measures, parent report, youth report, medical records, and observational protocols. Our scientific approach emphasizes the cultural embeddedness of healthy development, with the view that health equity can best be achieved by understanding sociocultural and economic forces that shape eating behavior and weight gain. This project holds great potential to address central questions about contributors to weight gain and obesity risk in a high-risk group, and enhance opportunities for prevention of obesity and associated health problems.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $594,455 )
2025	2025	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVENUE STE 204	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	9	7/8/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$594,455
														Subtotal = $594,455

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $594,574 )
2024	2024	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVENUE STE 204	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	8	5/12/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$594,574
														Subtotal = $594,574

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $630,356 )
2023	2023	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVENUE STE 204	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	7	8/4/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$630,356
2023	2022	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVE STE 312	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	6	10/9/2022	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2023	2022	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVENUE STE 204	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	003	6	8/4/2023	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$193,641
2023	2021	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVENUE STE 204	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	5	8/4/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$193,641
														Subtotal = $630,356

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $646,740 )
2022	2022	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVE STE 312	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	6	9/19/2022	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$646,740
2022	2021	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVE STE 312	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	5	9/19/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $646,740

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $378,586 )
2021	2021	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVE STE 312	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	5	3/4/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$340,727
2021	2021	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVE STE 312	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	5	3/15/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$37,859
														Subtotal = $378,586

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $386,452 )
2020	2020	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVE STE 312	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	4	3/13/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$386,452
														Subtotal = $386,452

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $386,900 )
2019	2019	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVE STE 312	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	3	3/22/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$386,900
														Subtotal = $386,900

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $385,441 )
2018	2018	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVE STE 312	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	6/18/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$38,545
2018	2018	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVE STE 312	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	2	3/16/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$346,896
														Subtotal = $385,441

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $379,952 )
2017	2017	ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY	660 S MILL AVE STE 312	TEMPE	AZ	85281	MARICOPA	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	8/7/2017	NEW	$379,952
														Subtotal = $379,952

Grand Total All Awards = $4,383,456

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Childhood Obesity and Cardiometabolic Health among Impoverished Mexican Americans

Award Number: R01MD011599

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/07/2017

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2027

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