The goal of this study was to evaluate the association between generational status and fast food consumption among South-Asian Americans. We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the California Health Interview Survey for 2007, 2009, and 2011. After adjusting for control variables, South-Asian Americans of the third generation or more had a fast food intake rate per week 2.22 times greate...

The EMILLE Project (Enabling Minority Language Engineering) was established to construct a 67 million word corpus of South Asian languages. In addition, the project has had to address a number of issues related to establishing a language engineering (LE) environment for South Asian language processing, such as translating 8-bit language data into Unicode and producing a number of basic LE tools...

The proliferation of preferential trading agreements (PTAs) in different regions of the world has been a significant development over the last two decades or so. South Asian countries are slowly moving towards a South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) in recent years. The desirability of SAFTA has been questioned by some observers recently. Do necessary conditions exist for a successful PTA in South...

BACKGROUND Little is known about potential ethnic differences in stroke incidence. We compared incidence and time trends of ischemic stroke and primary intracerebral hemorrhage in South Asian, Chinese and white persons in a population-based study. METHODS Population based census and administrative data analysis in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, Canada using validated ICD 9/ICD...

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,...

Epidemiological studies of international variations in disease incidence have helped to generate and test hypotheses about the relative importance of genetic, environmental, social, and cultural factors in causing cardiovascular diseases. Studies of racial and ethnic variation within countries have also contributed in advancing such understanding. Indian, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani people born ...

PURPOSE South Asians have a higher-than-average risk of CHD. The reasons for this are unclear, but physical inactivity and/or poor responsiveness to exercise may play a role. This study compared the effect of prior exercise on postprandial triacylglycerol (TAG), glucose, insulin, interleukin-6, and soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 concentrations in South Asian and European men. METHO...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW We seek to describe the relationship between diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular risk in migrant South Asians compared to native white Europeans, and to determine the temporal change in this relationship over recent years. RECENT FINDINGS Recent evidence suggests that the excess mortality risk associated with diabetes is lower in the migrant South Asian population compared ...

Epidemiological studies of international variations in disease incidence have helped to generate and test hypotheses about the relative importance of genetic, environmental, social, and cultural factors in causing cardiovascular diseases. Studies of racial and ethnic variation within countries have also contributed in advancing such understanding. Indian, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani people born ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate how South Asian patients conceptualise the notion of clinical trials and to identify key processes that impact on trial participation and the extent to which communication difficulties, perceptions of risk and attitudes to authority influence these decisions. Also to identify whether 'South Asian' patients are homogeneous in these issues, and which factors differ betwe...