Food Insecurity and Major Diet-Related Morbidities in Migrating Children: A Systematic Review.

The prevalence of overweight/obesity was lowest in those who were foreign-born and had been in the US for less than 1 year compared to the US-born (overweight or more: 23% vs 31.8%, obesity: 8.2% vs 16.9%, severe obesity: 2.9% vs 5.9%), with an increasing trend in foreign-born children who lived in US for more than 1 year (overweight or more: adjOR 1.38 (95% CI: 0.85–2.24), obesity: adjOR 1.80 (95% CI: 0.82–3.96), severe obesity: adjOR 1.36 (95% CI: 0.25–7.30)), suggesting that foreign-born children and adolescents are susceptible to the obesogenic environment of the USA with unhealthy dietary habits (high energy, sugar, and fat intake).

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