School of Health and Social Wellbeing, University of the West of England, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK.
Institute of Applied Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2SQ, UK.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Mar 5;19(5):3070. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19053070.
There has been little agreement on the role that socioeconomic factors play in the aetiology of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), obesity, and diabetes among migrants in the United Kingdom (UK). We systematically reviewed the existing evidence on this association to contribute to filling this gap in the literature. Two reviewers were involved at each stage of the review process to ensure validity. We comprehensively searched through several electronic databases and grey literature sources to identify potentially eligible papers for our review. We extracted data from our finally included studies and appraised the methodological rigour of our studies. A narrative synthesis approach was used to synthesise and interpret the extracted data. We sieved through 2485 records identified from our search and finally obtained 10 studies that met our inclusion criteria. The findings of this review show that there is a trend towards an association between socioeconomic factors and CVDs, diabetes, and obesity among migrants in the UK. However, the picture was more complex when specific socioeconomic variables and migrant subgroups were analysed. The evidence for this association is inconclusive and its causal relationship remains speculative. There is, therefore, the need for further research to understand the exact association between socioeconomic factors and CVD, diabetes, and obesity among migrants in the UK.
在英国（UK），社会经济因素在心血管疾病（CVD）、肥胖和糖尿病的发病机制中所起的作用，人们尚未达成共识。我们系统地回顾了这方面的现有证据，以期填补这一文献空白。在审查过程的每个阶段都有两名审查员参与，以确保其有效性。我们全面搜索了多个电子数据库和灰色文献来源，以确定符合我们审查标准的潜在合格论文。我们从最终纳入的研究中提取数据，并评估我们研究的方法严谨性。采用叙述性综合方法来综合和解释提取的数据。我们从搜索中筛选出 2485 条记录，最终获得了 10 项符合纳入标准的研究。本综述的结果表明，在英国，社会经济因素与移民的 CVDs、糖尿病和肥胖之间存在一定的关联趋势。然而，当分析特定的社会经济变量和移民亚组时，情况则更为复杂。这一关联的证据尚无定论，其因果关系仍存在推测性。因此，有必要进一步研究，以了解英国移民中社会经济因素与 CVD、糖尿病和肥胖之间的确切关联。
