Place of birth, duration of residence, neighborhood immigrant composition and body mass index in New York City

Table 4 Adjusted¹ Mean BMI by Place of Birth and Neighborhood Characteristics for Hispanics

	US Born Adjusted mean BMI, (95% CI) N	Foreign-born Adjusted mean BMI, (95% CI) N	P-value for row		US Born Adjusted mean BMI, (95% CI) N	Foreign-born Adjusted mean BMI, (95% CI) N	p-value for row
High² proportion of foreign-born residents in neighborhood	28.99 (29.81–28.53) 228	27.95 (28.53–27.38) 427	0.03	High³ proportion of linguistically isolated households in neighborhood	28.64 (29.56–27.72) 226	28.22 (28.86–27.59) 430	0.79
Low proportion of foreign-born residents in neighborhood	29.51 (29.98–29.04) 972	28.32 (28.71–27.93) 989	<0.0001	Low proportion of linguistically isolated households in neighborhood	29.64 (30.11–29.18) 974	28.28 (28.67–27.89) 986	<0.0001
P-value for interaction between place of birth and neighborhood characteristics		0.85				0.27

1 adjusted for age, gender, education, Hispanic ethnicity and neighborhood poverty rate.
2 High is defined as being above the 75% percentile of the distribution of proportion foreign-born in all neighborhoods in the sample. The 75% percentile is equivalent to 0.44 of residents in the neighborhood being foreign-born.
3 High is defined as being above the 75% percentile of the distribution of proportion of households in the neighborhood being linguistically isolated in all the neighborhoods in the sample. The 75% percentile is equivalent to 0.25 of the households being linguistically isolated.

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