According to the U.S. Census, Asian Americans are the most quickly increasing population in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau, 2011). It is expected that Asian Americans will grow from 5.14 percent of the total U.S. population in 2012 to 7.8 percent in 2050 (U.S. Census Bureau, n.d.). Also, Asian Americans are known to be the ethnic group with the highest income and best education in the Un...

Obesity prevalence and average body composition vary by US race and gender. Asian Americans have the lowest prevalence of obesity. Relying on body-mass index (BMI) to estimate obesity prevalence may misclassify subgroups that appear normally weighted but have excess body fat. We evaluated percentage body fat (PBF) and BMI to determine whether BMI reflects PBF consistently across different races...

BACKGROUND Indo-Asian immigrants are known to be at high risk of metabolic bone disease, but the prevalence of osteoporosis in this population is unknown. AIM To compare the bone mineral at the lumbar spine and femoral neck of Indo-Asian immigrant women with that of age-matched Caucasian women. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. METHODS Women of Indo-Asian origin referred for bone density sca...

Although regular screening mammography has been suggested to be associated with improvements in the relative survival of breast cancer in recent years, the appropriate age to start screening mammography remains controversial. In November 2009, the United States Preventive Service Task Force published updated guidelines for breast cancer, which no longer support routine screening mammography for...

BACKGROUND Studies suggest that the rates of self harm vary by ethnic group, but the evidence for variation in risk factors has not been synthesised to inform preventive initiatives. METHODS We undertook a systematic literature review of research about self harm that compared at least two ethnic groups in the United Kingdom. RESULTS 25 publications from 1765 titles and abstracts met our inc...

Persons from the Indian subcontinent have elevated coronary heart disease risk. We measured insulin resistance with the insulin suppression test in 22 Asian Indian men and women and an equal number of control subjects of European ancestry matched for age and body mass index. Asian men and women had increased glucose and insulin responses to oral glucose tolerance tests (P<.05 by ANOVA) and had ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate QRISK2 and Framingham cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk scores in a tri-ethnic U.K. population. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING West London. PARTICIPANTS Randomly selected from primary care lists. Follow-up data were available for 87% of traced participants, comprising 1866 white Europeans, 1377 South Asians, and 578 African Caribbeans, aged 40-69 years at baseline (199...