ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2019
Overeating and binge eating among immigrants in the United States: new terrain for the healthy immigrant hypothesis.
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- Eating disorders among international migrants: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis of Acculturation and Suicide-Related Outcomes: A Test of the Immigrant Paradox.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Pooled it
- Eating Disorders in an Immigrant Population: Are Clinical Features and Treatment Outcomes Different from the Native-Born Spanish Population?Nutrients · 2025Article
- Association between time of residence and self-perception of distress, interpersonal relationships, and social role in Venezuelan immigrants in Lima, Peru 2018-19: mixed-methods study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- A literature review of dopamine in binge eating.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Review
- Health Conditions and Dietary Intake Among Brazilian Immigrants in the United States of America.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2021Article
- State of the Art: the Not-So-Great Wall of America.Current hypertension reports · 2019Article
- Trends in cannabis use among immigrants in the United States, 2002-2017: Evidence from two national surveys.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
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backgroundPrior research indicates that, compared to individuals born in the United States (US), immigrants are less likely to experience mental health and inhibitory control problems. However, our understanding of overeating and binge eating-both related to mental health and inhibitory control-among immigrants in the US remains limited. Drawing from a large national study, we report the prevalence of overeating and binge eating among immigrants vis-à-vis the US-born.
methodsThe data source used for the present study is the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC-III, 2012-2013), a nationally representative survey of 36,309 civilian, non-institutionalized adults ages 18 and older in the US. Logistic regression was employed to examine the relationship between immigrant status and key outcomes.
resultsThe prevalence of any (immigrants = 7.8%, US-born = 17.0%) and recurrent overeating (immigrants = 2.9%, US-born = 5.3%) was lower among immigrants than US-born individuals. Among those reporting recurrent overeating, the prevalence of binge eating with loss of control was comparable among immigrant (37.2%) and US-born participants (39.9%), in general. However, stratified analyses revealed that risk of binge eating with loss of control was lower among immigrant women compared to US-born women (AOR 0.54, 95% CI 0.29-0.98).
conclusionsFindings from the present study provide clear results that immigrants are substantially less likely to overeat as compared to US-born individuals and that, among women but not men, immigrant status is associated with lower risk of binge eating with loss of control.
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