Association of immigrant generational status with asthma

ObjectiveWe sought to examine whether asthma risk is lower in second-generation immigrants (i.e., Canadian-born children with at least one foreign-born parent) and first-generation immigrants (i.e., foreign-born children) compared with non-immigrants (i.e., Canadian-born children to Canadian-born parents).MethodsData were obtained from the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth from 1994 to 2008, which measured child health …