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Mohammad Siahpush
Researcher at University of Nebraska Medical Center
Publications - 191
Citations - 11949
Mohammad Siahpush is an academic researcher from University of Nebraska Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Smoking cessation & Population. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 191 publications receiving 10683 citations. Previous affiliations of Mohammad Siahpush include La Trobe University & Cancer Council Victoria.
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Ethnic-Immigrant Differentials in Health Behaviors, Morbidity, and Cause-Specific Mortality in the United States: An Analysis of Two National Data Bases
Gopal K. Singh,Mohammad Siahpush +1 more
TL;DR: Immigrants' risks of smoking, obesity, hypertension, and chronic condition, although substantially lower than those for the US-born, increased with increasing length of US residence, consistent with the acculturation hypothesis.
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All-cause and cause-specific mortality of immigrants and native born in the United States
Gopal K. Singh,Mohammad Siahpush +1 more
TL;DR: Mortality patterns for immigrants and for US-born people vary considerably, with immigrants experiencing lower mortality from several major causes of death, including cardiovascular diseases and infectious diseases.
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Rising social inequalities in US childhood obesity, 2003-2007.
TL;DR: The magnitude of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in obesity and overweight prevalence increased between 2003 and 2007, with substantial social inequalities persisting even after controlling for behavioral factors.
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Racial/Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Behavioral Determinants of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in the United States: Analyzing Independent and Joint Associations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined independent and joint associations between several socioeconomic, demographic, and behavioral characteristics and obesity prevalence among 46,707 children aged 10-17 years in the United States.
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Socioeconomic, Rural-Urban, and Racial Inequalities in US Cancer Mortality: Part I-All Cancers and Lung Cancer and Part II-Colorectal, Prostate, Breast, and Cervical Cancers.
TL;DR: Socioeconomic inequalities existed for both whites and blacks, with blacks experiencing higher mortality from each cancer than whites within each deprivation group, and gradients in mortality were steeper in nonmetropolitan than in metropolitan areas.