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SUBMITTER: Albrecht SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4567919 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Albrecht Sandra S SS Osypuk Theresa L TL Kandula Namratha R NR Gallo Linda C LC Lê-Scherban Félice F Shrager Sandi S Diez Roux Ana V AV
Annals of epidemiology 20150717 10
<h4>Purpose</h4>We examined whether living in neighborhoods supportive of healthier diets and more active lifestyles may buffer immigrants against the unhealthy weight gain that is purported to occur with longer length of US residence.<h4>Methods</h4>Neighborhood data referring to a 1-mile buffer around participants' baseline home addresses were linked to longitudinal data from 877 Hispanic and 684 Chinese immigrants aged 45 to 84 years in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. We used ethni ...[more]