نتایج جستجو برای: ethnicity groups

تعداد نتایج: 749809  

Journal: :American journal of hypertension 2004
Holly Kramer Cong Han Wendy Post David Goff Ana Diez-Roux Richard Cooper Sujata Jinagouda Steven Shea

BACKGROUND Most previous studies investigating the association between ethnicity and hypertension focused on differences between African Americans and whites and did not include other racial/ethnic groups such as Chinese or Hispanics. METHODS We used data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a population-based study of 6814 adults without clinical cardiovascular disease, to ...

2017
Aymen El Masri Gregory S. Kolt Thomas Astell-Burt Emma S. George

Little is known regarding the health and lifestyle behaviours of Australians of Lebanese ethnicity. The available evidence suggests that Australians of Lebanese ethnicity who were born in Lebanon reportedly have higher rates of cardiovascular disease-related and type 2 diabetes-related complications when compared with the wider Australian population. The aim of this study is to compare lifestyl...

Journal: :Perception 2012
Anthony C Little Kimberley J Hockings Coren L Apicella Claudia Sousa

Many studies show agreement within and between populations and cultures for general judgments of facial attractiveness. Studies that have examined the attractiveness of specific traits have also highlighted cross-cultural differences for factors such as symmetry, averageness, and masculinity. One trait that should be preferred across cultures is heterozygosity. Indeed, several studies suggest t...

Journal: :international journal of preventive medicine 0
sara karimi maryam radahmadi mohammad fazilati hamid azizi-malekabadi hojjatallah alaei

background:  the  current study examined race and ethnic differences in the separate and combined (additive) effects of anxiety, depression and problem drinking on the baseline and trajectory of subjective health among adult men in the united states. methods:  this longitudinal study used data from the fragile families and child well-being study. we included 4655 men, composed of 2407 blacks, 1...

Journal: :Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment 2009
Michael J Sulik Snjezana Huerta Argero A Zerr Nancy Eisenberg Tracy L Spinrad Carlos Valiente Laura Di Giunta Armando A Pina Natalie D Eggum Julie Sallquist Alison Edwards Anne Kupfer Christopher J Lonigan Beth M Phillips Shauna B Wilson Jeanine Clancy-Menchetti Susan H Landry Paul R Swank Michael A Assel Heather B Taylor

Measurement invariance of a one-factor model of effortful control (EC) was tested for 853 low-income preschoolers (M age = 4.48 years). Using a teacher-report questionnaire and seven behavioral measures, configural invariance (same factor structure across groups), metric invariance (same pattern of factor loadings across groups), and partial scalar invariance (mostly the same intercepts across ...

Background: The Minorities’ Diminished Returns (MDRs) theory suggests that the health effect of educational attainment is considerably smaller for members of racial and ethnic minority groups than for Whites. Objective: The current study explored the racial and ethnic differences in the association between educational attainment and Breast Physical Exam (...

Journal: :The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2012
Nisha Dogra Swaran P Singh Nadzeya Svirydzenka Panos Vostanis

In this editorial we argue for the need for better research evidence on the prevalence of child mental health problems in minority ethnic groups, service utilisation among these groups and whether some service barriers are specific for certain groups. Without such evidence it is not possible to influence policy and practice so that evidence-based and appropriate services can be designed and off...

2013
Hou Tee Lu Rusli Bin Nordin

BACKGROUND The National Cardiovascular Disease (NCVD) Database Registry represents one of the first prospective, multi-center registries to treat and prevent coronary artery disease (CAD) in Malaysia. Since ethnicity is an important consideration in the occurrence of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) globally, therefore, we aimed to identify the role of ethnicity in the occurrence of ACS among high...

2016
Guy Lansley Yiran Wei Tim Rains

Ethnicity has long been a major subject in the realm of social research in the UK. It describes an umbrella of characteristics that are based on the premise that groups of people who have their roots in common ancestry, religion, nationality, language and territory share similar traits and culture (Bulmer, 1996). The definition, measurement and classification of ethnicity has attracted on-going...

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