Abstract:Background
Parental nativity, as well as duration of residence of foreign‐born parents in the host country, has been shown to be associated with size at birth. However, most studies have focused on maternal nativity status only and have not accounted for important characteristics of both parents.
Objective
To explore whether maternal and paternal nativity and length of residence (LOR) are independently associated with birthweight for gestational age in a representative sample of infants in Canada.
Methods
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“…In this issue of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology , Behlim and colleagues 3 use a population representative sample of births in Canada, and taking into account differences in ethnicity between immigrants and non‐immigrants, to show that differences in birthweight for gestational age by nativity did not change over time. They also show that differences between first‐generation immigrants and native Canadians can be completely explained by differences in baseline characteristics of the two parents.…”
“…In this issue of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology , Behlim and colleagues 3 use a population representative sample of births in Canada, and taking into account differences in ethnicity between immigrants and non‐immigrants, to show that differences in birthweight for gestational age by nativity did not change over time. They also show that differences between first‐generation immigrants and native Canadians can be completely explained by differences in baseline characteristics of the two parents.…”
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