Place of birth Matters: Adverse dietary profiles observed for US born compared to non‐US born Latino populations
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Birthplace is associated with more adverse dietary profiles for US-born than for foreign-born Latino adults.
Our objective was to examine the association between ethnicity and birthplace and the percent of energy from selected food groups among Hispanics, the largest growing segment of the US population. We used data from NHANES 1999-2004, collected from Mexican (n = 3375) and other Hispanic (n = 622) adults (18 y and older), classified as foreign born (FB) or US born (USB). Using University of North ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The FASEB Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0892-6638,1530-6860
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.22.1_supplement.680.6