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SynthesisJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2024

Obesity in Refugees post-resettlement in a high-income country: a meta-analysis.

Niclette I Kibibi, Isabelle Dena, Precious de-Winton Cummings, Chelsea D Hicks, Wei Bao, Marin L Schweizer

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Synthesis in Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Niclette I KibibiDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Iowa College of Public Health, 145 N. Riverside Dr., S400 CPHB, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA. niclette-kibibi@uiowa.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0670-6499
Isabelle DenaDepartment of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Precious de-Winton CummingsDepartment of Epidemiology, University of Iowa College of Public Health, 145 N. Riverside Dr., S400 CPHB, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
Chelsea D HicksHarborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Wei BaoInstitute of Public Health Sciences, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Anhui, China.
Marin L SchweizerDivision of Infectious Disease, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
University of Iowa · USUniversity of Saskatchewan · CAUniversity of Science and Technology of China · CNUniversity of Washington · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRefugees have a high prevalence of obesity post resettlement, but few studies have compared their risk of obesity to those of the host population. We systematically investigated the association between refugee status and obesity after resettlement in a high-income nation.

methodsWe searched PubMed, Embase, OpenGrey and bibliographies of retrieved articles, with no date, location, and language restrictions, for observational studies assessing obesity rates in resettled refugees compared to the host population.

resultsNine studies were analyzed. We found no evidence of increased risk of obesity among refugees compared to the host population, with significant heterogeneity across studies. However, the risk of obesity among refugee men were significantly lower than the host population. DISCUSSION: The heterogeneity between studies calls for more high-quality research to examine the risk of obesity among refugees compared to the host population in high-income countries. This will enable results to be pooled to provide more decisive evidence about obesity trends among refugees post migration in a high-income nation.

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Developed CountriesObesityRefugeesFemaleHumansMaleDeveloped countriesObesityPediatric obesityRefugees

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PMID37468741
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