Publications by authors named "Mafudia Bangura"
The effect of living in the United States on body mass index in refugee patients.
J Health Care Poor Underserved
May 2015
Background: We describe body mass index (BMI) trajectories over 20 months in newly settled refugees in the United States.
Methods: Growth curves were modeled in in hierarchical linear modeling for cohorts from Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Results: For refugees from Southeast Asia and Africa, coefficients suggest an increase of greater than 1.