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