Although there has been an increase in research on postpartum depression (PPD) among migrant Asian women, there is particularly limited attention given to migrant South Asian women. This is a significant limitation considering the rapidly changing demographics in Canada. Migrant South Asian women face a plethora of unique challenges, which affects their mental health and further prevents them f...

BACKGROUND South Asians are some of the least active people in the UK, but we know very little about how physical activity varies within and between different UK South Asian groups. There is much socio-economic and cultural heterogeneity among UK Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, and the same approaches to increasing physical activity may not be appropriate for all people of these ethnic gr...

BACKGROUND While the association of ethnic group with individual cardiovascular diseases has been studied, little is known about ethnic differences in the initial lifetime presentation of clinical cardiovascular disease in contemporary populations. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 1,068,318 people, aged ≥30 years and free from diagnosed CVD at baseline (90.9% White, 3.6% South Asian and 2.9% Bl...

BACKGROUND Children of South Asian decent born in the UK display lower levels of physical activity than British Caucasians although no longitudinal data are available. OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate change in activity levels over 1 year in a diverse ethnic sample of children residing in London, UK. METHODS Children were categorized into ethnic groups (Caucasian/mixed, Black, South Asian...

OBJECTIVE To assess the performance of the Cambridge Risk Score (CRS) to predict undiagnosed hyperglycemia in Caribbean and South Asian people living in the U.K. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The CRS uses routinely available data from primary care records to identify people at high risk for undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. The sensitivity, specificity, and area under the receiver operator character...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The metabolic risks associated with obesity are greater for South Asian populations compared with White or other ethnic groups, and levels of obesity in childhood are known to track into adulthood. Tackling obesity in South Asians is therefore a high priority. The rationale for this systematic review is the suggestion that there may be differential effectiveness in diet and ...

Background: Musculoskeletal pain is reported more commonly by South Asians in the UK than by white Europeans. This may result from a variety of factors, including cultural differences and thus we investigated the extent to which differences in the prevalence of pain within the South Asian population could be explained by differences in acculturation (the extent to which immigrants take on the c...

South Asians around the globe have the highest rates of coronary artery disease (CAD). These rates are 50% to 300% higher than other populations, with a higher risk at younger ages. These high rates of CAD are accompanied by low or similar rates of major traditional risk factors. The prevalence of diabetes is three to six times higher among South Asians than Europeans, Americans, and other Asia...

T HIS BOOK GROWS out of the question,What is South Asian American writing and what insights can it offer us about living in the world at this particular moment of tense geopolitics and interlinked economies? It is my conviction that reading this body of literature must be more than just an act of aesthetic or narrative pleasure. Rather, it must be a just act—doing justice to the contexts from w...

This review discusses the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease in the South Asian population, evaluates conventional and emerging risk factors, and reinforces the need for ethnic-specific redefinition of guidelines used to diagnose metabolic syndrome. We reviewed recent and past literature using Ovid Medline and PubMed databases. South Asians represent one of the largest ...