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 - ahajournals.org
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 …

Panethnic differences in blood pressure in Europe: a systematic review and meta-analysis

PA Modesti, G Reboldi, FP Cappuccio, C Agyemang… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background People of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asians (SA) ethnic minorities
living in Europe have higher risk of stroke than native Europeans (EU). Study objective is to …

Quantifying and understanding the higher risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease among South Asian individuals: results from the UK Biobank prospective …

AP Patel, M Wang, U Kartoun, K Ng, AV Khera - Circulation, 2021 - ahajournals.org
Background: Individuals of South Asian ancestry represent 23% of the global population,
corresponding to 1.8 billion people, and have substantially higher risk of atherosclerotic …

Diabetes in Asia and the Pacific: implications for the global epidemic

A Nanditha, RCW Ma, A Ramachandran… - Diabetes …, 2016 - diabetesjournals.org
The last three decades have witnessed an epidemic rise in the number of people with
diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes, and particularly in develo** countries, where more …

Predicting cardiovascular risk in England and Wales: prospective derivation and validation of QRISK2

J Hippisley-Cox, C Coupland, Y Vinogradova… - Bmj, 2008 - bmj.com
Objective To develop and validate version two of the QRISK cardiovascular disease risk
algorithm (QRISK2) to provide accurate estimates of cardiovascular risk in patients from …

Diabetes in asia

A Ramachandran, RCW Ma, C Snehalatha - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Prevalence of type 2 diabetes has rapidly increased in native and migrant Asian
populations. Diabetes develops at a younger age in Asian populations than in white …

Risk factors for early myocardial infarction in South Asians compared with individuals in other countries

P Joshi, S Islam, P Pais, S Reddy, P Dorairaj, K Kazmi… - Jama, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
ContextSouth Asians have high rates of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) at younger ages
compared with individuals from other countries but the reasons for this are unclear …

Ethnic minority status as social determinant for COVID-19 infection, hospitalisation, severity, ICU admission and deaths in the early phase of the pandemic: a meta …

C Agyemang, A Richters, S Jolani, S Hendriks… - BMJ global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Early literature on the COVID-19 pandemic indicated striking ethnic inequalities
in SARS-CoV-2-related outcomes. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to …

Glossary of terms relating to ethnicity and race: for reflection and debate

R Bhopal - Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 2004 - jech.bmj.com
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Differences in risk factors, atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular disease between ethnic groups in Canada: the Study of Health Assessment and Risk in Ethnic groups …

SS Anand, S Yusuf, V Vuksan, S Devanesen, KK Teo… - The lancet, 2000 - thelancet.com
Background Cardiovascular disease rates vary greatly between ethnic groups in Canada.
To establish whether this variation can be explained by differences in disease risk factors …