Table 4

Adjusted1 Mean BMI by Place of Birth and Neighborhood Characteristics for Hispanics


US Born Adjusted mean BMI, (95% CI) N
Foreign-born Adjusted mean BMI, (95% CI) N
P-value for row

US Born Adjusted mean BMI, (95% CI) N
Foreign-born Adjusted mean BMI, (95% CI) N
p-value for row

High2 proportion of foreign-born residents in neighborhood
28.99 (29.81–28.53) 228
27.95 (28.53–27.38) 427
0.03
High3 proportion of linguistically isolated households in neighborhood
28.64 (29.56–27.72) 226
28.22 (28.86–27.59) 430
0.79
Low proportion of foreign-born residents in neighborhood
29.51 (29.98–29.04) 972
28.32 (28.71–27.93) 989
<0.0001
Low proportion of linguistically isolated households in neighborhood
29.64 (30.11–29.18) 974
28.28 (28.67–27.89) 986
<0.0001
P-value for interaction between place of birth and neighborhood characteristics

0.85



0.27


1 adjusted for age, gender, education, Hispanic ethnicity and neighborhood poverty rate.

2 High is defined as being above the 75% percentile of the distribution of proportion foreign-born in all neighborhoods in the sample. The 75% percentile is equivalent to 0.44 of residents in the neighborhood being foreign-born.

3 High is defined as being above the 75% percentile of the distribution of proportion of households in the neighborhood being linguistically isolated in all the neighborhoods in the sample. The 75% percentile is equivalent to 0.25 of the households being linguistically isolated.

Park et al. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2008 5:19   doi:10.1186/1479-5868-5-19