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SUBMITTER: Daundasekara SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7560227 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Daundasekara Sajeevika S SS O'Connor Daniel P DP Berger Cardoso Jodi J Ledoux Tracey T Hernandez Daphne C DC
International journal of environmental research and public health 20200904 18
There is a dearth of information on the risk of inadequate and excess gestational weight gain (GWG) among different generations of Hispanic women in the United States. Therefore, the objective of this study was to understand the relationship of GWG and immigration across three generations of Hispanic women. The study was conducted using data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). The study sample included 580 (unweighted count) women (148 first-generation, 117 second-generatio ...[more]