1075 Ethnic Difference in OSA Risk Factors—Lee et al OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA (OSA) IS A COMMON DISORDER IN WHICH RECURRENT SLEEP RELATED UPPER AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION CAUSES SLEEP fragmentation and intermittent hypoxemia. Ethnicity has been suggested as an important risk factor for OSA. However, defining the role of ethnicity is complex, as it incorporates genetic, environmental, and cultural factor...

The term Indian diaspora refers to the overseas Indians officially known as Non- Resident (NRIs) or Persons of Origin (PIOs) people India by birth descendants from subcontinents, living outside Republic. Overseas are concerned ethnic groups associated with sensibility, ethnicity, nationality, citizenship having other co-relation life style abroad overseas. conceptual analyses on migration have ...

OBJECTIVE To calculate the prevalence of substance abuse and mental illness among suicide victims of different racial/ethnic groups and to identify race/ethnicity trends in mental health and substance abuse that may be used to improve suicide prevention. METHODS Data are from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), a state-based data integration system that, for 2004, includes da...

OBJECTIVE To examine ethnic differences in observed parenting and child behavior and the moderating effects of ethnicity on the relationship between treatment and parent and child behavior. METHOD Observations of 508 children with ADHD (ages 7-9) and their caregivers, collected during the Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD, were analyzed using univariate and mixed-model ANOVAs. RESULTS Alth...

abstract background and purpose: overweight and obesity are the health problem in adolescents and the main purpose of this study was to evaluate this problem and some socio-demographicrelated factors among two ethnic groups in iranian northern primary school children in 2010. materials and methods: this was a descriptive and cross-sectional study that performed on 4165 students (turkman = 2852a...

OBJECTIVES Studies on ethnic disparities in glycaemic control have been contradictory, and compromised by excessively broad categories of ethnicity and inadequate adjustment for socioeconomic differences. We aimed to study the effect of ethnicity on glycaemic control in a large cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes. SETTING We used nationwide data (mainly from primary care) from the Swedish...

Ethnicity is frequently posited as an important factor in civil violence and other political contexts. Despite the significant attention that ethnicity receives, its effect depends on an important, but mostly ignored, assumption: that ethnicity is identifiable within and across groups. There is likely considerable variation in peoples’ abilities to identify each other. Certain individuals withi...

BACKGROUND Australia has one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse maternal populations in the world. Routinely few variables are recorded in clinical data or health research to capture this diversity. This paper explores how pregnant women, Australian-born and overseas-born, respond to survey questions on ethnicity or cultural group identity, and whether country of birth is a reliable ...

BACKGROUND Although psychoses and ethnicity are well researched, the importance of culture, race and ethnicity has been overlooked in Personality Disorders (PD) research. This study aimed to review the published literature on ethnic variations of prevalence, aetiology and treatment of PD. METHOD A systematic review of studies of PD and race, culture and ethnicity including a narrative synthes...