Behavioral Constructs and Mammography in Five Ethnic Groups

Hemoglobinopathies among five major ethnic groups in Karachi, Pakistan.

A brief survey of abnormal hemoglobin variants among the major ethnic groups of Karachi was conducted; 202,600 subjects were studied. Patients with low hemoglobin (Hb), low mean cell volume (MCV) and mean cell hemoglobin (MCH) including anemia, microcytosis, hypochromic hemolysis and target cells, were refered for the identification of hemoglobinopathy by molecular methods. Population screening...

Cardiovascular disease by diabetes status in five ethnic minority groups compared to ethnic Norwegians

BACKGROUND The population in Norway has become multi-ethnic due to migration from Asia and Africa over the recent decades. The aim of the present study was to explore differences in the self-reported prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and associated risk factors by diabetes status in five ethnic minority groups compared to ethnic Norwegians. METHODS Pooled data from three population-b...

Civil about Intergroup Violence? Five Inadequacies of Communal and Ethnic Constructs of Urban Riots

The term ‘communal violence’ is commonly used in the South Asian context to refer to intergroup or ethnic violence. I contend that understanding intergroup violence purely within an inter-community or inter-ethnic framework is inadequate, in that it does not fully capture the processes of perpetration, impacts or mitigation of such violence. I suggests five areas where the categories of ‘commun...

Racial and Ethnic Groups

Frequency of rare HLA-A allelic groups in Gilak, Lor, Kurdish and Arab ethnic groups of Iran

Abstract Background and Objectives Histocompatibility antigens (HLAs) have high genetic diversity and their frequency can be diverse in different ethnicities. Therefore, the determination of these antigens in different ethnicities can provide data used in the expansion of centers for the registration of stem cell donors. Materials and Methods In this descriptive study, donor DNA was extracted ...