ArticleJournal of health and social behavior2011
Mexican American birthweight and child overweight: unraveling a possible early life course health transition.
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- The Weight of Being Unauthorized? Legal Status Variation in the Association between US Exposure and Obesity among Hispanic Immigrants in Los Angeles.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2021Article
- Association of gestational diabetes mellitus with offspring weight status across infancy: a prospective birth cohort study in China.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities: a Longitudinal Study of Growth Trajectories Among US Kindergarten Children.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2018Article
- Early Childhood Disadvantage for Sons of Mexican Immigrants: Body Mass Index Across Ages 2-5.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2016Article
- Evaluating Latino WIC Mothers' Perceptions of Infant's Healthy Growth: A Formative Assessment.Maternal and child health journal · 2016Article
- Generational status, neighborhood context, and mother-child resemblance in dietary quality in Mexican-origin families.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2016Article
- Epidemiological Paradox or Immigrant Vulnerability? Obesity Among Young Children of Immigrants.Demography · 2015Article
- Variation in child body mass index patterns by race/ethnicity and maternal nativity status in the United States and England.Maternal and child health journal · 2015Article
- Cohort and duration patterns among Asian immigrants: comparing trends in obesity and self-rated health.Biodemography and social biology · 2015Article
- Race/Ethnic and Nativity Disparities in Child Overweight in the United States and England.The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2012Article
- Developmental Origins of Disease and Health Disparities: Limitations and Future Directions.Families and child healthArticle
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Abstract
Mexican American children have a weight distribution that categorizes them as relatively healthy at birth but relatively unhealthy by age 3. This early life course transition in health based on weight raises the question of whether Mexican American children "outgrow" the epidemiologic paradox of favorable birth outcomes despite social disadvantage or whether their birthweight distribution places them on trajectory for overweight in childhood. We address this question using newly available 9-year follow-up data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing birth cohort study linked to pre-natal medical records. We systematically investigate the roles of birthweight, pre-natal factors, and childhood factors in explaining racial/ethnic differences in childhood overweight. Our main finding is that Mexican American children do outgrow the paradox: Their rates of childhood overweight are higher than expected given their birthweight distribution. Observed pre-natal and childhood factors do not explain the elevated rates of overweight among Mexican American children.
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