Age, gender, marital status, household structure, and occupation did not influence the patterns appreciably; however, stronger gradients for adiposity were noted in migrants from lower socioeconomic positions.
However, evidence for effect modification by socioeconomic position was found for the outcome of percentage of body fat; stronger gradients were noted in migrants from lower socioeconomic positions (Web Table 3).
The study also found an interaction between urban life-years and current SEP on adiposity, indicating a stronger effect on adiposity in recent migrants (≤10 urban life-years) from lower SEP groups.
These findings may explain why migrants from other provinces had lower rates of PCC.
Today, TB cure and treatment completion rates in migrants from Burma are consistently lower than in Thais; in one analysis in Chiang Rai Province in northern Thailand, home to thousands of Shans, only a quarter of non-Thais with TB were cured [ 28, 29].
Public health interventions focused on the control of obesity in newer migrants to urban areas, particularly those from lower socioeconomic positions, may be beneficial.
But many lower-income migrants from the inner cities are finding poverty, crime and poor social services when they arrive in their new homes.
The higher the proportion of international medical graduates from countries supplying long-term migrants, the lower will be England's demand for domestically trained doctors.
It has been previously reported from Oslo, Norway that Sri Lankan migrants have lower HDL cholesterol and higher triglycerides compared to Vietnamese, Iranians and ethnic Norwegians[ 17].
Compared with Spaniards, for whom prevalence was 26.5%, HCV seropositivity was higher in migrants from eastern Europe, 45.9% (p<0.01), and lower in persons from sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, and Latin America, for whom numbers were 10.1% (p<0.01), 16.4% (p = 0.09), and 4.9% (p<0.01), respectively.
Others assume that protective social and cultural factors from the country of origin entail general health advantages,e.g., lower suicide rates among migrants from Southern Europe [ 11, 12].
