OBJECTIVE To explore the cross-sectional association of nutrient intake with adiponectin in Filipino-American women who had completed a validated food frequency questionnaire. DESIGN One hundred and sixty-one Filipino women aged 40 to 82 years were recruited from the University of California, San Diego Filipino Women's Health Study. Dietary information was assessed by a validated Harvard-Will...

In the recent years, sonographic images of fetal nose have gained popularity in detecting trisomy 21 and other aneuploidies. Reference values for nasal bone length have been reported in different countries and ethnic populations. However, there was no reference range for the fetal nasal bone length (NBL) in the Filipino population. This prospective, cross-sectional study was conducted to establ...

The automatic analysis of emotions conveyed in social media content, e.g., tweets, has many beneficial applications. In the Philippines, one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, such methods could potentially enable first responders to make timely decisions despite the risk of data deluge. However, recognising emotions expressed in Philippine-generated tweets, which are mostly wri...

This volume has three aims. First, it brings new work on Filipinos and the Philippines from an emerging generation of scholars into dialogue with contributions from more established UK-based scholars. Our contributors thus include Filipinist academics partly trained in the UK and UK scholars who have recently begun to work on Filipino themes. Second, though not exclusively focused on that count...

Using combined data from the population-based 2001 and 2003 California Health Interview Surveys, we examined ethnic and gender-specific smoking behaviors and the effect of three acculturation indicators on cigarette smoking behavior and quitting status among 8,192 Chinese, Filipino, South Asian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese American men and women. After adjustment for potential confounders,...

The cytochrome B gene (MTCYB) within the mitochondrial genome has been widely used in species identification and taxonomic research. In this study, the population variation of the MTCYB gene in humans was demonstrated. The sequence polymorphism of the MTCYB gene was determined in 417 subjects in 8 populations in Taiwan (Taiwan Chinese, mainland Chinese, Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, and Caucasian...

OBJECTIVES This cross-sectional study was designed to examine the association between adiponectin and cardiovascular disease (CVD) among an understudied ethnic group of Filipino American women. METHODS We recruited 266 Filipino women aged 40-86 years from the University of California, San Diego Filipino Women's Health Study (1995-1999). Plasma adiponectin was extracted from archive blood samp...

INTRODUCTION Adherence to oral hypoglycemic agents is essential to reducing the poor health outcomes of populations at high risk for developing diabetes and its chronic complications. The goal of this study was to identify characteristics of patients in Hawaii least likely to adhere to oral hypoglycemic agents. METHODS This retrospective administrative data analysis included prescription refi...