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.

Margrethe F Horlyck-RomanovskyMelissa FusterSandra E EcheverriaKatarzyna WykaMay May LeungAnne E SumnerTerry T-K Huang

Published in: Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities (2019)

Africans 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.

Keyphrases

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