The US-Mexico Border Diabetes Prevention and Control Project: First Report of Results (2005)

The goal of the U.S.-Mexico Border Diabetes Prevention and Control Project is to reduce the impact of diabetes among residents along the U.S.-Mexico border, through a model of participation and shared leadership throughout the U.S.-Mexico border region.

The first phase of the project was to conduct a prevalence survey of diabetes and related biological and behavioral risk factors. The survey was administred from February 2001 to October 2002 to a stratified, random sample of 4,027 individuals, representative of the non-institutionalized pop ulation aged 18 years or older living in the U.S.-Mexico border region. 

Diabetes is defined by self-report or fasting plasma glucose (FPG) ≥ 126 mg/dl.; prediabetes as having FPG in the range 100-125 mg/dl and no diagnosis of diabetes underweight was defined as body mass index (BMI) <18.5 kg/m2, normal weight as BMI 18.5-24.9 kg/m2, overweight as BMI 25.0-29.9 kg/m2, and obesity as BMI ≥30.0 kg/m2...