title: Ethnic-immigrant disparities in total and abdominal obesity in the US.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine sex-specific disparities in total and abdominal obesity prevalence across 6 ethnic-immigrant groups and explore whether the observed differences were attributable to diet and physical activity (PA).
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were from 4331 respondents age 18-64 from the 2003-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Sex-specific multiple logistic regression analyses were performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Regardless of race-ethnicity, immigrants exhibited lower prevalence of total and abdominal obesity than natives. Among the US-born, Whites had the lowest total obesity prevalence followed by Hispanics and then Blacks; but racial-ethnic disparities for immigrants were different. In abdominal obesity, US-born white men had the highest prevalence. PA helped explain some ethnic-immigrant disparities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Complex interactions of sex by race-ethnicity and nativity exist for obesity prevalence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. ming.wen@soc.utah.edu
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.forename: Lori
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kowaleski-Jones
authors.forename: Jessie X
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Fan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D056128:Obesity, Abdominal / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology