Summary
Published Date: November 01, 2014
The authors hypothesized that the biracial population will display intermediate (or an average of) outcomes in comparison to their monoracial counterparts.
Multivariable regression models predicted and compared health outcomes among various (mono- and bi-) for 238,897 racially and ethnically diverse adult respondents using California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) data from 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009.
Authors found that multivariate results revealed that whites reported better health overall than biracial Asians and other monoracial groups. Biracial Asians displayed BMI ranges that were intermediate between their monoracial constituents.
