ArticleDemography2015
Epidemiological Paradox or Immigrant Vulnerability? Obesity Among Young Children of Immigrants.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Food Insecurity and Major Diet-Related Morbidities in Migrating Children: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
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- Vision Loss in Children from Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Households: Evidence from the National Survey of Children's Health 2018-2020.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2024Article
- BMI Growth Profiles Among Black Children from Immigrant and US-Born Families.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2024Article
- Understanding the bidirectional association between obesity and risk of psychological distress and depression in young adults in the US: available evidence, knowledge gaps, and future directions.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- Application of the Social Cognitive Theory amid food parenting practices of Black immigrant mothers in the US: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Community Solutions to Increase the Healthfulness of Grocery Stores: Perspectives of Immigrant Parents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Contraceptive Consistency and Poverty after Birth.Population research and policy review · 2021Article
- Prevalence of self-reported obesity among diverse Latino adult populations in New York City, 2013-2017.Obesity science & practice · 2021Article
- Assimilation, Acculturation, and Allostatic Load in U.S.- and Foreign-Born Hispanics.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2021Article
- Potentially avoidable hospitalization for asthma in children and adolescents by migrant status: results from the Italian Network for Longitudinal Metropolitan Studies.BMC public health · 2020Article
- 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
- Perspectives of Caregivers on the Effects of Migration on the Nutrition, Health and Physical Activity of their Young Children: A Qualitative Study with Immigrant and Refugee Families.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2020Article
- Signs of the End of the Paradox? Cohort Shifts in Smoking and Obesity and the Hispanic Life Expectancy Advantage.Sociological science · 2020Article
- Parent activation and pediatric primary care outcomes for vulnerable children: A mixed methods study.Patient education and counseling · 2019Article
- Drivers of Overweight/Obesity in 4-11 Year Old Children of Australians and Immigrants; Evidence from Growing Up in Australia.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2019Article
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Abstract
According to the "immigrant epidemiological paradox," immigrants and their children enjoy health advantages over their U.S.-born peers--advantages that diminish with greater acculturation. We investigated child obesity as a potentially significant deviation from this paradox for second-generation immigrant children. We evaluated two alternate measures of mother's acculturation: age at arrival in the United States and English language proficiency. To obtain sufficient numbers of second-generation immigrant children, we pooled samples across two related, nationally representative surveys. Each included measured (not parent-reported) height and weight of kindergartners. We also estimated models that alternately included and excluded mother's pre-pregnancy weight status as a predictor. Our findings are opposite to those predicted by the immigrant epidemiological paradox: children of U.S.-born mothers were less likely to be obese than otherwise similar children of foreign-born mothers; and the children of the least-acculturated immigrant mothers, as measured by low English language proficiency, were the most likely to be obese. Foreign-born mothers had lower (healthier) pre-pregnancy weight than U.S.-born mothers, and this was protective against their second-generation children's obesity. This protection, however, was not sufficiently strong to outweigh factors associated or correlated with the mothers' linguistic isolation and marginal status as immigrants.
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