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Researchers from Johns Hopkins University report on findings in epidemics.
"Immigration is an important population dynamic at work in the U.S., but we know little about its impact on American obesity. Built on nutrition transition and immigration theories, this paper provides explanations for immigrants' initial body composition advantage, its partial erosion over time, and the gender difference in the erosion," scientists in the United States report (see also Epidemics).
"We find evidence that the American obesity epidemic would be much more severe without the mass immigration that began in 1965. In addition to confirming the erosion in immigrants' body composition advantage, we further find that this erosion is weaker for men than for women. Once immigration's impact is teased out, racial/ethnic disparities in body composition greatly differ from what we observe. This study provides gender-specific estimates for the differences in obesity by nativity and residence duration and the net level of Hispanic-white and Asian-white disparities at the mean body mass index (BMI) as well as the overweight, Stage-1, and Stage-2 obesity cutoffs," wrote L.X. Hao ...
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- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly January 1, 2009 700+ words
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...Boyce and colleagues, Johns Hopkins University. The researchers concluded...contact A.C. Boyce, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Berman...Psychiatric, Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University. This article was prepared...
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- Newspaper article from: Blood Weekly June 18, 2009 700+ words
...Quinoneshinojosa and colleagues, Johns Hopkins University (see also Meningioma...A. Quinoneshinojosa, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital...Neurosurgery, Surgery, Johns Hopkins University. This article was prepared...
- Johns Hopkins University to participate in DIS leasing program.
- Newspaper article from: Heart Disease Weekly January 11, 2004 700+ words
...between Digirad Imaging Solutions (DIS), Digirad's nuclear imaging services division, and the Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins University, division of cardiology, now offers cardiac SPECT procedures in its outpatient satellite cardiology...
- Investigators at Johns Hopkins University, Medical Department release new data...
- Newspaper article from: Genomics & Genetics Weekly September 19, 2008 700+ words
...Wright and colleagues, Johns Hopkins University, Medical Department...contact S.E. Guggino, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins School...Genetics, Physiology, Johns Hopkins University, Medical Department...
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