Obesity Disparities Among Adult Single-Race and Multiracial Asian and Pacific Islander Populations.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite increasing numbers of multiracial individuals, they are often excluded in studies or aggregated within larger race and ethnicity groups due to small sample sizes.

Objective

To examine disparities in the prevalence of obesity among single-race and multiracial Asian and Pacific Islander individuals compared with non-Hispanic White (hereafter, White) individuals.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used electronic health record (EHR) data linked to social determinants of health and health behavior data for adult (age ≥18 years) members of 2 large health care systems in California and Hawai'i who had at least 1 ambulatory visit to a primary care practitioner between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2018. Data were analyzed from

SUBMITTER: Bacong AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10951735 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature