Is increased time in the United States associated with poorer diet during pregnancy in Mexican immigrant women?
Kim G. Harley, MPH, Brenda Eskenazi, PhD, and Gladys Block, PhD. School of Public Health, Dept. of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, 2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94720-7380, 510 642-9079, kharley@uclink4.berkeley.edu OBJECTIVES: The diet of recent Mexican immigrant women is generally believed to be healthful and may contribute to the good birth outcomes seen in this population. However, this diet may deteriorate with increasing U.S. acculturation. This study examined how nutrition during pregnancy changes with country of birth and increasing years in the United States in a population of rural, low-income, first- and second-generation women of Mexican descent. METHODS: Data on usual dietary intake were obtained from more than 500 low-income, pregnant Mexican and Mexican-American women attending prenatal care in the Salinas Valley, California using a 72-item food frequency questionnaire specifically modified for this population. RESULTS: Preliminary analyse
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