... variant in a population of Chinese-Americans, as well as four other Asian-American populations (Japanese, Korean, ... 541 individuals and found that 15.1% of Chinese-Americans with high plasma TG (>150 mg ...
... as monoracial Asian Americans to be diagnosed with a psychological disorder. The study by researchers at the Asian American Center on Disparities Research at the University of California, Davis, will ...
... of interpersonal conflict have a three-fold greater risk of attempting suicide when compared with Asian Americans overall, according to a new study by University of California, Davis, researchers. The ...
... led to increasing demand for BRCA1/2 mutation testing in this population.
"Our findings indicate that Asian-American women with BRCA mutations may not be referred for genetic testing as often as they ...
... measure the resulting sense of group identity. The outcome was that while the overall proportion of Asian Americans who say race is important in their racial consciousness is smaller than for blacks, ...
... was less important than looking fashionable.
According to the survey responses, the more-westernized Asian Americans also spent more time in the sun and were more likely to actively tan either ...
... have lower rates of thinking about and attempting suicide than the national average, U.S.-born Asian-American women seem to be particularly at risk for suicidal behavior, according to new University ...
... mental health effects of such discrimination may shift over a lifetime as Asian-Americans continue to examine their ethnic ties, ... between 2002 and 2003 that included 2,047 Asian adults 18-75 years old. ...
... health system.
Although African Americans and Asian Americans were included in the initial screening portion ... health officials should help Mexican Americans and women take steps that might prevent ...
A belief that Asian-Americans are taking over US universities, outperforming other groups and grabbing the bulk of math, science and engineering degrees has been debunked in a landmark study.
... 25 years old have poorer mental health than their compatriots who came to this country when they were 25 or older, according to data from the first national mental health survey of Asian-Americans...
... and non-Hispanic whites because earlier surveys did not collect data about such groups as Hispanics or Asian-Americans or because the sample sizes from these groups were too small to draw valid ...
... higher level of suspicion when using these prediction models in Asian women, because they under-predicted the true ... mutations in 200 white women and 200 Asian-American women at cancer genetics clinics ...
... portrait of the highly diverse Chinese American population. The research was conducted by the University of Maryland's Asian American Studies Program with support from OCA, a national community-based ...
Asian-American women who ate higher amounts of soy during childhood had a 58 percent reduced risk of breast cancer, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and ...
