Perspectiva Historica Del Proyecto de Prevencion y Control de la Diabetes en la Frontera Mexico-Estados Unidos (Informe Especial) (Perspectiva General de la Enfermedad/Trastorno‪)‬

A historical overview of the United States-Mexico border diabetes prevention and control project The border region between the United States of America and Mexico, designated in the La Paz Agreement of 1983 (1), consists of a 3 141-km area between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean that extends 100 km into the United States and Mexico north and south of the international border. Although the region comprises 44 U.S. counties and 80 Mexican municipalities, as defined by the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission (2), the bulk of the population is concentrated in 14 sister counties-municipalities along the border. Type 2 diabetes ("diabetes") is a serious public health problem in the region, reflecting and by some measures surpassing the extent of the overall diabetes burden in Mexico and the United States, as well as worldwide, where financial and human costs of the disease are expected to double over the next 20 years (3).