International migration and adverse birth outcomes: role of ethnicity, region of origin and destination.

Tables 4 and 5 present the results of a three-level model of LBW assessing the interaction between world region of origin and destination, which was highly significant (p<0.0001).

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Despite this, sub-Saharan African and Latin-American and Caribbean women migrating to Europe seemed to be more likely to deliver LBW babies compared with those from the same region who migrated to the USA, although these trends did not reach statistical significance in the three-level model ( table 5 , third column).

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