What is the burden of hypertension, overweight/obesity, and diabetes among different immigrant groups in the United States?
Different immigrant groups in the US exhibit distinct cardiometabolic risk profiles, highlighting the need for targeted public health and preventive interventions.
Immigrants from Mexico/Central America/Caribbean and the Indian subcontinent bore the highest burden of overweight/obesity and diabetes while those from Southeast Asia and Russia bore the highest burden of hypertension.
Commodore‐Mensah et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
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