Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in South Asians in the United States: epidemiology, risk factors, and treatments: a scientific statement from the American Heart …

AS Volgman, LS Palaniappan, NT Aggarwal, M Gupta… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
South Asians (from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri
Lanka) make up one quarter of the world's population and are one of the fastest-growing …

State of the science in women's cardiovascular disease: a Canadian perspective on the influence of sex and gender

CM Norris, CYY Yip, KA Nerenberg… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of premature death for women in
Canada. 1 Although it has long been recognized that estrogen impacts vascular responses …

Association of long-term exposure to transportation noise and traffic-related air pollution with the incidence of diabetes: a prospective cohort study

C Clark, H Sbihi, L Tamburic, M Brauer… - Environmental …, 2017 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Evidence for an association between transportation noise and cardiovascular
disease has increased; however, few studies have examined metabolic outcomes such as …

[HTML][HTML] Ethnic and diet-related differences in the healthy infant microbiome

JC Stearns, MA Zulyniak, RJ de Souza, NC Campbell… - Genome medicine, 2017 - Springer
Background The infant gut is rapidly colonized by microorganisms soon after birth, and the
composition of the microbiota is dynamic in the first year of life. Although a stable …

Incidence of major cardiovascular events in immigrants to Ontario, Canada: the CANHEART immigrant study

JV Tu, A Chu, MR Rezai, H Guo, LC Maclagan… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Immigrants from ethnic minority groups represent an increasing proportion of
the population in many high-income countries, but little is known about the causes and …

Barriers and facilitators to recruitment of South Asians to health research: a scoping review

TAW Quay, L Frimer, PA Janssen, Y Lamers - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives People of South Asian ethnicity are under-represented in health research
studies. The objectives of this scoping review were to examine the barriers and facilitators to …

Is YouTube useful as a source of health information for adults with type 2 diabetes? A South Asian perspective

AY Leong, R Sanghera, J Jhajj, N Desai… - Canadian journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives To investigate the content, quality and popularity of information about type 2
diabetes available on YouTube. Methods We searched YouTube with the terms Diabetes …

[HTML][HTML] The use of digital health by South Asian communities: scoping review

N Aldosari, S Ahmed, J McDermott… - Journal of Medical Internet …, 2023 - jmir.org
Background South Asian individuals experience a higher burden of chronic diseases and
limited access to health care services compared with their Caucasian peers. Digital health …

Cardiovascular disease in South Asian migrants

E Fernando, F Razak, SA Lear, SS Anand - Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents a significant cause of global mortality and
morbidity. South Asians (SAs) have a particularly high burden of coronary artery disease …

'Cost, culture and circumstances': Barriers and enablers of health behaviours in South Asian immigrants of Australia

M Nisar, A Khan… - Health & social care in the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The health behaviours related to chronic diseases experienced by South Asian immigrants
are interrelated with their culture and socioeconomic conditions. South Asian immigrants …