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Alexandra Ursache1, Brandi Y Rollins2, Alicia Chung3
1Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, 180 Madison Ave, New York, NY, 10016, USA. alexandra.ursache@nyulangone.org.
Journal of immigrant and minority health
|April 15, 2024
概括
来自移民家庭的黑人儿童的BMI轨迹与美国出生的黑人儿童相似,但患肥胖的风险较低. 这项研究突出了这些群体体重增加模式的关键差异.
科学领域:
- 儿科肥胖症研究的研究.
- 发展轨迹的发展轨迹
- 种族和民族的健康差异.
背景情况:
- 儿童肥胖差异在美国得到了充分的记录,但群体内部的差异,特别是来自移民家庭的黑人儿童,未得到充分研究.
- 纵向数据对于了解儿童发育期间的身体质量指数 (BMI) 轨迹至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 识别和可视化来自移民家庭 (主要是加勒比地区) 的黑人儿童的BMI增长模式.
- 将这些成长轨迹与来自美国出生的黑人家庭的黑人儿童的成长轨迹进行比较.
- 调查这两个群体之间肥胖风险的潜在差异.
主要方法:
- 使用了从5岁到8岁的纵向BMI数据.
- 采用增长混合模型来识别不同的BMI轨迹.
- 应用多组增长混合模型来比较移民和美国出生的黑人儿童之间的轨迹.
主要成果:
- 在来自移民家庭的黑人儿童中,确定了四种不同的BMI轨迹,70%的人保持了非超重的状态.
- 对于来自美国出生的黑人家庭的黑人儿童,也发现了类似的四类模式.
- 虽然整体模式相似,但移民黑人儿童在更高的BMI轨迹中患病率较低 (5%vs. 11%),在加速体重增加轨迹中患病率较低.
结论:
- 来自移民家庭的黑人儿童表现出多个BMI轨迹,很大程度上反映了美国出生的黑人儿童的BMI轨迹.
- 研究结果表明,与美国出生的同行相比,来自移民家庭的黑人儿童的肥胖风险可能更低.
- 需要进一步的研究来证实这些发现,并探索更重的重量轨迹的差异.
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