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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access Risk of obesity in immigrants compared with Swedes in two deprived neighbourhoods 1 1 1,2 Johan Faskunger , Ulf Eriksson , Sven-Erik Johansson , Kristina Sundquist1,2 and Jan Sundquist*2,3 Address: 1Department of Neurobiology, Health Care Sciences and Society/Center for Family and Community Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2Deparment of Clinical Science, Center for Primary Health Care Research, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden and 3Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Califorina, USA Email: Johan Faskunger - johan.faskunger@proactivity.se; Ulf Eriksson - ulf.eriksson@ki.se; Sven-Erik Johansson - sven-erik.johansson@med.lu.se; Kristina Sundquist - kristina.sundquist@ki.se; Jan Sundquist* - jan.sundquist@med.lu.se * Corresponding author Published: 22 August 2009 Received: 8 April 2009 Accepted: 22 August 2009 BMC Public Health 2009, 9:304 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-304 This article is available from: /1471-2458/9/304 © 2009 Faskunger et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Despite a strong social gradient in the prevalence of obesity, there is l