Science news articles about 'asian women'

... 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 ...

Asian women at risk for breast and ovarian cancers may not be getting the genetic screening that could save them. The reason: computer models commonly used to assess whether women should be tested for ...

... China or Japan. However, when Asian women migrate to the U.S., their breast cancer risk rises ... three races and all three study sites, and in women with and without a family history of breast cancer. ...

... Stanford University School of Medicine. The researchers also found that Asian women whose partners are white are more likely ... ,575 white, 3,226 Asian and 868 Asian-white couples delivered babies ...

Women in Toronto's South Asian community are not being tested for sexually transmitted diseases during checkups as consistently as other women, a health activist says.

... rate, 83.2 percent, while the rate among Asian women, 89.4 percent, was higher than it was for white women. "The difference between blacks and whites may seem small percentage wise – 4 ...

... . However, no adjustment is recommended for South Asian women. QRisk2 identifies the risk of CVD ... population, indicating that in Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi women, the risk is 43 per cent, 80 ...

... -generation immigrants were at higher risk for psychoses than their first-generation counterparts. Asian women of both generations, but not men, also had an increased risk compared with white British ...

... from these groups, Zheng noted. So the researchers turned to a population of Asian women in Shanghai, China, which they had been studying for more than a decade to identify nutritional, environmental ...