groups compared differ in both these respects. The influence of ethnic origin on incidence seems to be especially profound (Neel, 1958); and in recent years the arrival in Britain of many members of non-indigenous ethnic groups has opened up the possibility of clarifying the relative importance of genotype and environment by studying their offspring. For many generations, the incidence of genet...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the expression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Jewish Israeli patients according to ethnic origin. METHODS RA patients who were seen in a primary public rheumatology clinic were divided into two groups according to ethnic origin (Sepharadic or Askenazi) and subjected to a cross sectional study. The two groups were compared for history, physical status, and radiographi...

The adoption of health behaviors characterized by minimal energy expenditure and overconsumption of energy has led to cardiometabolic risk factors in pregnancy, childhood, and youth, all of which increase the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in adulthood. The propensity to develop abdominal obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors appears to disproportionally affect non-white ethnic groups....

This study examines ethnic differences in leaving the parental home and the choice of destination (both location and quality of housing) in the Netherlands. Using unique individual administrative panel data, we study the mobility of the entire birth cohort 1983. In contrast to previous studies, this paper includes the geographical location and the quality of destination living arrangements in t...

Despite the cultural significance of dance in Jewish communities around world, research into Middle Eastern outside modern nation-state Israel is sorely under-researched. This article aims to help rectify this by focusing on Yemenite, Persian/Iranian, and Kurdish explores how these dancers have functioned been received within societies they a part of. The methods that gone are combination analy...

INTRODUCTION To explore the relationship between ethnic origin and mode of feeding with early neonatal jaundice, we examined maternal and neonatal risk factors for hyperbilirubinaemia in a multi-ethnic Asian cohort of healthy term newborns. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is an observational cohort study in a maternity ward serving a multi-ethnic cosmopolitan community. The relationship between hy...

BACKGROUND Squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) of the oral tongue (OT) and of the base of the tongue and tonsils (BTT) differ with respect to etiology, treatment and prognosis. Human papillomavirus has been linked to the increased incidence of BTT, yet, the trends in incidence of BTT and OT tumors among gender and ethnic origin groups have not been well examined. We sought to examine the trend in ge...

Higher levels of VAT at the same body size and lower levels of physical activity (PA) have been reported in persons of Chinese and South Asian origin compared to European origin. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that higher levels of VAT in persons of Chinese and South Asian origin versus European origin are associated with lower levels of PA. Chinese, European, and South As...