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Place of birth, duration of residence, neighborhood immigrant composition and body mass index in New York City

BACKGROUND: Past research has suggested that changes in culture explain the substantial weight gain seen in many immigrant groups with length of residence in the U.S. and across generations of residence in the U.S. However, it has been theorized that those settling in immigrant and co-ethnic neighbo...

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Autores principales: Park, Yoosun, Neckerman, Kathryn M, Quinn, James, Weiss, Christopher, Rundle, Andrew
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2373307/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1479-5868-5-19