Diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease are prevalent and predicted to increase sharply in Asian Indians. The data over the last decade suggest that insulin resistance is common in this ethnic group and operates as a ‘common soil’ for development of glucose intolerance and atherosclerosis. Obesity phenotype of Asian Indians; high percent body fat and higher truncal and abdominal fat at a l...

Following reports of high infant mortality in Central Vancouver Island, total and cause-specific infant death rates (IDR) for Status Indians and for Other Residents of Vancouver Island (VI) were compared to those for their counterparts in the rest of the province (RoP). Data for 1991-97, in which Status Indians had been identified through record linkage, were obtained from BC Vital Statistics. ...

Obesity is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and non-insulin-dependent diabetes, which are chronic diseases that afflict American Indians and Alaska Natives today. Because American Indians are not represented in most national health and nutrition surveys, there is a paucity of data on actual prevalence of obesity in American Indians. We estimated prevalence of overweight and ...

BACKGROUND The rate of diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism (collectively, venous thromboembolism: VTE) among patients discharged from Indian Health Service hospital care from 1980 through 1996 was considerably lower than rates reported in African Americans or whites. Expansion of the national census in 1990 to include American Indians and Alaskan Natives permits a more...

THE PLAINS The Plains region, an area delineated by the Rocky Mountains on the west; the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba on the north; the Mississippi River on the east; and the Gulf of Mexico on the south, is home to philosophies, traditions, and ways of life that are some of the most varied and complex in the United States. The Great Plains measure 1,125,000 square m...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the hypothesis that the higher rates of coronary heart disease (CHD) in Indians (South Asians) compared with Malays and Chinese is at least partly explained by central obesity, insulin resistance, and syndrome X (including possible components). DESIGN Cross sectional study of the general population. SETTING Singapore. PARTICIPANTS Random sample of 961 men and wo...

There is increasing evidence to believe that Asian Indians are at an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), which cannot be attributed to the common risk factors. Individuals with small, dense LDL phenotype are also known to be at increased risk of CHD. Our objective was to examine whether the prevalence of smaller and denser LDL particles is increased in Asian Indians. Thirty-nine Asi...

BACKGROUND The prevalence and morbidity of asthma vary greatly among different ethnic communities and geographical locations, but the roles of environmental and genetic factors are not fully understood. The differences in prevalence of adult asthma among Chinese, Malay, and Indian ethnic groups in Singapore were examined, and the extent to which these could be explained by personal and environm...

OBJECTIVE To examine the hypothesis that the higher rates of coronary heart disease (CHD) in Indians (South Asians) compared with Malays and Chinese is partly attributable to differences in blood concentrations of homocysteine, and related blood concentrations of folate and vitamin B12. DESIGN Cross sectional study of the general population. SETTING Singapore. PARTICIPANTS Random sample o...