The following projects have been funded as part of the CAMBIO Collaborative Research Project Grants and are currently on-going. Other projects are at final stages of review and will be added to this list upon approval.
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Lucie Lévesque; Margarita Safdie |
Title: ‘Ecological Mapping of a school-based intervention to prevent childhood
obesity.’
Principal Investigators:
Margarita Safdie (Queen’s University), Juan
Rivera (INSP, México), and Lucie Lévesque (Queen’s University)
Purpose: To assess
the environmental changes that are most favoured in their focal schools and
which have the greatest impact on healthy eating and physical activity. |
Florence Theodore |
Title: 'Intervention to reduce sweetened beverage consumption in Mexican
School Children: a complementary social marketing strategy directed to
teachers and parents.'
Principal Investigators: Anabelle Bonvecchio, Florence Theodore, Laura Irizarry, and Angela
Carriedo (INSP)
Purpose: To create an intervention strategy focused on family and teachers, complementary to an existing strategy for school children, with the goal of reducing the consumption of sweetened beverages and increase water consumption. |
 
Hortensia Reyes; Elaine Power |
Title: ‘Formative assessment to inform obesity prevention in child care.’
Principal Investigators: Hortensia Reyes Morales (INSP), Jess Haines (Harvard Medical School /Harvard Pilgrim
Health Care) and Elaine Power (Queen’s University)
Purpose: To investigate the issues surrounding the perception of obesity in child-care centres in Mexico with the long-term goal of implementing interventions to prevent overweight. |
Simón Barquera |
Title: 'Relationship between exercise intensity, BMI, and blood pressure response in Mexican adolescents, aged 13-14 years, in an urban school in Mexico City.'
Principal Investigators: Simón Barquera, Catalina Medina (INSP)
Purpose: To explore the relationship between exercise intensity and factors which can be uesd in studies investigating obesity and its risk factors. |
Pilar Rodríguez; Mark Tremblay |
Title: 'Comprehensive review of evidence to develop a Report Card on the Physical Activity levels of Mexican children and Youth’.
Principal Investigators: Pilar Rodríguez Martínez and Juan López Taylor (Universidad de Guadalajara); Mark Tremblay and Rachel Colley (CHEO-RI: HALO)
Purpose: Provide a comprehensive review on data available related to physical activity levels of Mexican children and youth, which will serve as the foundation for initiating a systematic evaluation at the national level on progress made towards promoting healthy lifestyles in youth.
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Edgar Vásquez |
Title: Components of the malnutrition syndrome in children participating in the INADEJ Alimentary Assistance Program and elementary schools of the Municipality of
Arandas.'
Principal Investigators: Edgar Vásquez Garibay, Enrique Romero Velarde
Purpose: Investigate the association between cytokine levels from adipose tissue and their allelic variants, and variables related to their susceptibility for the development of obesity in children. |
Vincent Onywera |
Title: Strengthening CAMBIO - KIDS - CAN collaboration to fight chidhood obesity in Canada, Mexico and Kenya through joint research and academic activities
Principal Investigators: Vincent Onywera, Ian Janssen and Mark Tremblay
Purpose: To compare data on childhood obesity and the related risk factors among Canadian, Mexican and Kenyan children. In addition, a comprehensive literature review shall be conducted to help establish a data bank of research that has been done on nutrition, child obesity and physical activity among Kenyan children and youth, an effort that is currently being conducted in parallel in Mexico. |
Luis Ortiz Hernández |
Title: Validity of Body Mass Index for the diagnosis of obesity in scholars and adolescents from Mexico City
Principal Investigators: Luis Ortiz Hernández, Jesús Valdés Flores, Rober Malina
Purpose: To determine the accuracy of BMI-for-age for the diagnosis of obesity. |
Enrique Ureña Bogarín
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Title: Determining the risk factors associated with pre-diabetes in young patients and the relationship with childhood obesity, lifestyle, anthropometric variables, to develop a risk model.
Principal Investigators: Enrique Ureña Bogarín, Héctor Ramón Martínez Ramírez, Noé Alfaro Alfaro, Oscar Loreto Garibay
Purpose: To obtain data on the prevalence of pre-diabetes in a population from Guadalajara, Jalisco, and to develop a risk model. |
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