ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2019
Black Immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean Have Similar Rates of Diabetes but Africans Are Less Obese: the New York City Community Health Survey 2009-2013.
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- Social Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among Black Ethnic Groups: Findings From the 2013 to 2018 National Health Interview Survey.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026Article
- Length of Time in the United States and Cardiometabolic Outcomes Among Foreign and US-Born Black Adults.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- The Influence of Racial Discrimination as a Chronic Stressor on Type 2 Diabetes Risk and Self-Management Behaviors among Black Adults: A Scoping Review.Current diabetes reports · 2024Article
- Black New Yorkers with Type 2 Diabetes: Afro-Caribbean Immigrants Have Lower BMI and Lower Waist Circumference than African Americans.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2023Article
- Looking Across and Within: Immigration as a Unifying Structural Factor Impacting Cardiometabolic Health and Diet.Ethnicity & disease · 2023Review
- Comparisons of Culturally Targeted Food and Beverage Advertisements in Caribbean-American Neighborhood and Non-Latinx White Neighborhood in New York City.Health equity · 2022Article
- Increasing obesity odds among foreign-born New Yorkers are not explained by eating out, age at arrival, or duration of residence: results from NYC HANES 2004 and 2013/2014.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Culturally Sensitive Health Education in the Caribbean Diaspora: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Intergenerational differences in dietary acculturation among Ghanaian immigrants living in New York City: a qualitative study.Journal of nutritional science · 2021Article
- Africans Who Arrive in the United States before 20 Years of Age Maintain Both Cardiometabolic Health and Cultural Identity: Insight from the Africans in America Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Diabetes Risk and Control in Multi-ethnic US Immigrant Populations.Current diabetes reports · 2020Review
- Stress Measured by Allostatic Load Varies by Reason for Immigration, Age at Immigration, and Number of Children: The Africans in America Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Caribbean Diaspora Healthy Nutrition Outreach Project (CDHNOP): A Qualitative and Quantitative Approach to Caribbean Health.Annals of global health · 2020Article
- Comparing the Self-Rated Health Effects of Obesity on the Health of African Americans and Caribbean Blacks.Social work in public health · 2019Article
- A Review of Diabetes Prediction Equations in African Descent Populations.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2019Review
- Disparities in diabetes between US-born and foreign-born population: using three diabetes indicators.Biodemography and social biologyArticle
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Abstract
objectiveThis study was designed to determine (a) whether the prevalence and odds of either obesity or diabetes differed in foreign-born black Africans and Caribbeans living in New York City (NYC) and (b) whether time in the United States (US) affected odds of either outcome.
methodsData were obtained from NYC Community Health Survey 2009-13 for 380 African-born blacks and 2689 Caribbean-born blacks. Weighted logistic regression estimated odds of obesity and diabetes, adjusting for age, sex, education, income, marital status, children < 18, BMI (diabetes models only), and time in the US.
resultsObesity prevalence in Africans (60.2%, male; age, 46.0 ± 13.5 years, (mean ± SD); BMI, 27.3 ± 5.6 kg/m
conclusionsAfricans living in NYC are less obese than Caribbeans, but odds of diabetes do not differ. Time in the US does not affect odds of either obesity or diabetes. Hence, BMI and diabetes risk profiles in blacks differ by region of origin and combining foreign-born blacks into one group masks important differences.
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