Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Diana De Oliveira-Gomes, Juan P Gonzalez-Rivas, Tala Al-Rousan, Jeffrey I Mechanick, Goodarz Danaei
The number of migrants, which includes forcibly displaced refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented persons, is increasing worldwide. The global migrant population is heterogeneous in terms of medical conditions and vulnerability resulting from non-optimal metabolic risk factors in the country of origin (e.g., abnormal adiposity, dysglycemia, hypertension, and dyslipidemia), adverse travel conditions and the resulting stress, poverty, and anxiety, and varying effects of acculturation and access to healthcare services in the country of destination...
September 4, 2023: Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition