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Reena Oza-Frank, MPH, RD and K. M. Venkat Narayan, MD

Reena Oza-Frank is a PhD candidate in the Nutrition and Health Sciences Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, and K. M. Venkat Narayan is with the Department of Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Reena Oza-Frank, Nutrition and Health Sciences Program, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30322 (e-mail: roza@emory.edu).

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Bates et al. emphasize the need for studies of obesity trends to disaggregate "data by nativity and by country of origin or ancestry to avoid missing important sources of heterogeneity."^1(p76) We applaud the researchers for highlighting this important gap in the literature. We agree that data presented this way are scarce in the literature and that they are necessary to provide additional insight into obesity risk among US immigrants. However, we were disappointed that, despite advocating for taking this more appropriate approach, the authors did not follow this advice with sufficient rigor and over-generalized the findings in their own study.

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