ArticleMaternal and child health journal2009
The health and cognitive growth of Latino toddlers: at risk or immigrant paradox?
Article in Maternal and child health journal, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Informal STEM Learning for Young Children: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Maternal Psychological Risk Moderates the Impacts of Attachment-Based Intervention on Mother-Toddler Mutuality and Toddler Behavior Problems: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- A call for supplemental implementation strategy reporting guidelines to advance minority health: applying expanded specification and reporting recommendations to the Literacy Promotion for Latinos study.Implementation science communications · 2026Article
- Achievement of Two Cohorts of Immigrants: Cognitive Mapping Changes and the Country of Origin as Moderator.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2022Article
- The Health of Hispanic Children from Birth to Emerging Adulthood.The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2021Article
- Father involvement in infancy predicts behavior and response to chronic stress in middle childhood in a low-income Latinx sample.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Skin-to-skin contact and infant emotional and cognitive development in chronic perinatal distress.Early human development · 2020Article
- Using Electronic Health Record Data to Study Latino Immigrant Populations in Health Services Research.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2020Article
- Infants' Biological Sensitivity to the Effects of Maternal Social Support: Evidence Among Mexican American Families.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2019Article
- Child, Caregiver, Family, and Social-Contextual Factors to Consider when Implementing Parent-Focused Child Feeding Interventions.Current nutrition reports · 2018Review
- Maternal Employment, Community Contexts, and the Child-Care Arrangements of Diverse Groups.Journal of marriage and the family · 2018Article
- Parental Attitudes, Behaviors, and Barriers to School Readiness among Parents of Low-Income Latino Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Acculturation and Syndemic Risk: Longitudinal Evaluation of Risk Factors Among Pregnant Latina Adolescents in New York City.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2018Article
- Meeting Women Where They Are: Integration of Care As the Foundation of Treatment for At-Risk Pregnant and Postpartum Women.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Article
- Maternal acculturation and the growth of impoverished Mexican American infants.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2017Article
- Predictors of Poor School Readiness in Children Without Developmental Delay at Age 2.Pediatrics · 2016Article
- Early cognitive skills of Mexican-origin children: The roles of parental nativity and legal status.Social science research · 2016Article
- Trajectories of Developmental Functioning Among Children of Adolescent Mothers: Factors Associated With Risk for Delay.American journal on intellectual and developmental disabilities · 2016Article
- Effects of prenatal factors and temperament on infant cortisol regulation in low-income Mexican American families.Developmental psychobiology · 2015Article
- Developmental outcomes of toddlers of young Latina mothers: Cultural, family, and parenting factors.Infant behavior & development · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Epidemiologists have shown how birth outcomes are generally robust for immigrant Latina mothers, despite often situated in poor households, advanced by their strong prenatal and nutritional practices. But little is known about (1) how these protective factors may differ among Latino subgroups, (2) the extent to which birth outcomes, ongoing maternal practices, and family supports advance Latino toddlers' health and physical growth, and (3) whether the same processes advance toddlers' early cognitive growth. We drew on a national probability sample of 8,114 infants born in 2001, including 1,450 of diverse Latino origins. Data come from birth records, maternal interviews when the child was 9 and 24 months of age, and direct assessments of health status, physical growth, and cognitive proficiencies. Descriptive analyses compared Mexican-heritage and other Latino mothers and toddlers relative to middle-class whites. Multivariate regression techniques identified predictors of child health, weight, and BMI, as well as cognitive proficiencies at 24 months. Infants of Mexican-heritage or less acculturated Latina mothers displayed robust birth outcomes, compared with other ethnic groups. The low incidence of premature births and low birthweight among these mothers continued to advance their cognitive growth through 24 months of age. Yet Latino children overall displayed smaller gains in cognitive proficiencies between 9 and 24 months, compared with middle-class populations, attributable to Latinas' lower levels of maternal education, weaker preliteracy practices, and a higher ratio of children per resident adult. Health practitioners should recognize that many Latina mothers display healthy prenatal practices and give birth to robust infants. But these early protective factors do not necessarily advance early cognitive growth. Screening practices, early interventions, and federal policy should become more sensitive to these countervailing dynamics.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.