Racial/ethnic disparities in self-reported short sleep duration among US-born and foreign-born adults

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• Alternative Title:
  Ethn Health
• Personal Author:
  Cunningham, Timothy J. ; Wheaton, Anne G. ; Ford, Earl S. ; Croft, Janet B.
• Description:
  Objective
  
  Racial/ethnic health disparities are infrequently considered by nativity status in the United States, although the immigrant population has practically doubled since 1990. We investigated the modifying role of nativity status (US- vs. foreign-born) on racial/ethnic disparities in short sleep duration (<7 h), which has serious health consequences.
  
  Design
  
  Cross-sectional data from 23,505 US-born and 4,326 foreign-born adults aged ≥ 18 years from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey and multivariable log-linear regression were used to estimate prevalence ratios (PR) for reporting short sleep duration and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CI).
  
  Results
  
  After controlling for sociodemographic covariates, short sleep was more prevalent among blacks (PR 1.29, 95% CI: 1.21–1.37), Hispanics (PR 1.18, 95% CI: 1.08, 1.29), and Asians (PR 1.37, 95% CI: 1.16–1.61) than whites among US-born adults. Short sleep was more prevalent among blacks (PR 1.71, 95% CI: 1.38, 2.13) and Asians (PR 1.23, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.47) than whites among the foreign-born.
  
  Conclusion
  
  Among both US- and foreign-born adults, blacks and Asians had a higher likelihood of short sleep compared to whites. US-born Hispanics, but not foreign-born Hispanics, had a higher likelihood than their white counterparts. Future research should aim to uncover mechanisms underlying these disparities.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Age Distribution Asian Black Or African American Cross-Sectional Studies Emigrants And Immigrants Female Health Surveys Hispanic Or Latino Humans Linear Models Male Middle Aged Sleep Deprivation United States White People Young Adult

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• Keywords:
  Ethnicity Immigration Nativity Race Sleep Stress
• Source:
  Ethn Health. 21(6):628-638
• Pubmed ID:
  27150351
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5206750
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  21
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4babf8c4786407f3a220b209b6536792478d6c3f7b9f1e152250eb8dbccc2572
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/43587/cdc_43587_DS1.pdf
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