ArticleJournal of community health2009
Disparities in obesity and overweight prevalence among US immigrant children and adolescents by generational status.
Article in Journal of community health, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03947918 (Sleep Duration and Risk for Obesity in Mexican American Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 62 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Sleep Duration and Risk for Obesity in Mexican American Children
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Does acculturation affect the dietary intakes and body weight status of children of immigrants in the U.S. and other developed countries? A systematic review.Ethnicity & health · 2019Pooled it
- Socioeconomic position and childhood-adolescent weight status in rich countries: a systematic review, 1990-2013.BMC pediatrics · 2015Pooled it
- Pilot Social Network Weight Loss Intervention With Two Immigrant Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2022Trial
- Healthy Immigrant Families: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Family-Based Nutrition and Physical Activity Intervention.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2018Trial
- Parental perceptions of a motivational interviewing-based pediatric obesity prevention intervention.Clinical pediatrics · 2013Trial
- Precision nutrition across climates: decoding diet, tradition, and genomic adaptations from South Asia to the Arctic.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Breast, Colorectal, and Prostate Cancer Incidence among Filipino Americans by Generational Status in the Multiethnic Cohort Study.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2024Article
- BMI Growth Profiles Among Black Children from Immigrant and US-Born Families.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2024Article
- Associations of peer generational status on adolescent weight across Hispanic immigrant generations: A social network analysis.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Obesity Incidence in U.S. Children and Young Adults: A Pooled Analysis.American journal of preventive medicine · 2022Article
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- Individual-, family-, and contextual-level variables do not explain the protective effect of parental nativity status on changes in 3-15-year-old children's BMI.SSM - population health · 2020Article
- Association between environmental factors and BMI: evidence from recent immigrants from developing countries.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2019Article
- The role of country of birth, and genetic and self-identified ancestry, in obesity susceptibility among African and Hispanic Americans.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Article
- The Impact of Early Human Migration on Brown Adipose Tissue Evolution and Its Relevance to the Modern Obesity Pandemic.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2019Review
- The influence of immigrant generation on obesity among Asian Americans in California from 2013 to 2014.PloS one · 2019Article
- Trends in overweight, obesity, and waist-to-height ratio among Australian children from linguistically diverse backgrounds, 1997 to 2015.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2019Article
- Racial Differences in Mechanisms Linking Childhood Socioeconomic Status With Growth in Adult Body Mass Index: The Role of Adolescent Risk and Educational Attainment.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2018Article
- Unhealthy weight among children in Spain and the role of the home environment.BMC research notes · 2018Article
- Injuries Among School-aged Children of Immigrants.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2018Article
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Abstract
We examined the prevalence and socio-behavioral correlates of obesity and overweight among 46,707 immigrant and US-born children and adolescents aged 10-17 years. The 2003 National Survey of Children's Health was used to estimate obesity and overweight prevalence among children in 12 immigrant groups, stratified by race/ethnicity and generational status. Logistic regression was used to examine immigrant differentials in the prevalence and odds of obesity and overweight. Obesity and overweight prevalence varied from a low of 6 and 18% for second-generation Asian immigrants to a high of 24 and 42% for native-born black children (US-born black children with US-born parents), respectively. After adjusting for age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, perceived neighborhood safety, television viewing, computer use, and physical activity, first-generation immigrant children, overall, had 26% lower odds of obesity than native-born children. Obesity and overweight prevalence was lower for immigrant black and white children than their native-born counterparts, while obesity and overweight prevalence among Hispanic children did not vary significantly by generational status. Compared with native-born white children, the adjusted odds of obesity were 64% higher for native-born blacks, 55% higher for second-generation Hispanic immigrants, and 63% lower for first-generation Asian immigrants. Adjusted immigrant differentials in overweight risks were also marked. Socioeconomic, demographic, and behavioral factors accounted for 61 and 35% of ethnic-immigrant disparities in obesity and overweight prevalence, respectively. Immigrant patterns in childhood obesity and overweight vary substantially by ethnicity and generational status. To reduce disparities, obesity prevention programs must target at-risk children of both immigrant and US-born parents.
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