OBJECTIVE To reinvestigate whether South Asian men in the UK are at lower risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer in a UK-based retrospective cohort study and to examine possible reasons that may explain this. PATIENTS AND METHODS The catchment areas were predefined in four areas of southern England, and age- and race-specific populations for those areas taken from census data. Cases wer...

INTRODUCTION Compared with other racial groups, South Asian adults develop type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease at a lower body mass index (BMI). Perceptions of weight and the effect of weight on health can influence weight-loss attempts but are not well described in this population. The objective of this study was to examine perceptions of weight appropriateness and the effect of weight ...

BACKGROUND An exploration of renal complications of diabetes from the patient perspective is important for developing quality care through the diabetic renal disease care pathway. METHODS Newly referred South Asian and White diabetic renal patients over 16 years were recruited from nephrology outpatient clinics in three UK centres--Luton, West London and Leicester--and their experiences of th...

This paper essentially focuses on the belated regionalization attempts of the South Asian economies and myriad of problems that are coming in their way to forming a smoothly functioning free trade area and regional integration agreement. Notwithstanding their efforts, progress so far has been tardy. Although South Asian economies took several liberalization measures during the 1990-2005 period,...

OBJECTIVES To determine ethnic-specific temporal trends in cardiovascular risk factors in Ontario between 2001 and 2012. DESIGN A population-based repeated cross-sectional study. SETTING Ontario, Canada. PARTICIPANTS 219,276 participants of the Canadian Community Health Survey (205,326 white, 5620 South Asian, 4368 Chinese and 3962 black) during the period 2001 to 2012. MAIN OUTCOME MEA...

OBJECTIVES Children from Indian and Pakistani (South Asian) and black minority groups have relatively high rates of attendance at accident and emergency (A&E) departments and admissions to hospital in the UK. We examine parents' beliefs and management of childhood asthma that possibly contribute to their greater use of hospital services. DESIGN Questionnaire survey. SETTING Three London hos...

BACKGROUND Fetal growth restriction is associated with metabolic derangements in the newborn, impaired functioning in childhood and chronic diseases in adulthood. Differences between ethnic groups with respect to fetal growth may result in the misclassification of constitutionally small or large babies as having abnormal growth for their gestational age. We have developed intrauterine growth ch...

S urinamese South-Asian migrants, living in the Netherlands and aged 30 years, have a nearly 40-fold increased age-adjusted risk for end-stage diabetic nephropathy in comparison with their European Dutch counterparts (1). Several studies in the U.K. also showed a higher incidence of end-stage renal failure in South-Asian diabetic patients (2– 6). There is no clear explanation for the increased ...

BACKGROUND In the UK, people of South Asian origin with asthma experience excess morbidity, with hospitalisation rates three times those of the majority White population and evidence suggests that South Asian children with asthma are more likely to suffer uncontrolled symptoms and hospital admissions with acute asthma compared to White British children. This paper draws on data from The Managem...

It is acknowledged that South Asian paintings are characterized by the facial mode in each period. This paper will argue that physical features of South Asian people such as eye and nose prompted painters to render a figure in profile in the early modern period.