Differences in birth weight between immigrants' and natives' children in Europe and Australia: a LifeCycle comparative observational cohort study.
Sandra FlorianMathieu IchouLidia PanicoStéphanie Pinel-JacqueminTanja G M VrijkotteMargreet W Harskamp-van GinkelRae-Chi HuangJennie CarsonLoreto Santa Marina RodriguezMikel Subiza-PérezMartine VrijheidSílvia Fernández-BarrésTiffany C YangJohn WrightEva CorpeleijnMarloes CardolElena IsaevskaChiara MocciaMarjolein N KooijmanEllis VoermanVincent JaddoeMarieke WeltenElena SpadaMarisa RebagliatoAndrea BeneitoLuca RonfaniMarie-Aline CharlesPublished in: BMJ open (2023)
The immigrant health advantage is not universally transferred to children in the form of higher birth weight in all host countries. Further research should investigate whether this cross-national variation is due to differences in immigrant communities, social and healthcare contexts across host countries.