http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The first study of its kind to investigate depression following cancer diagnosis among British white people and South Asians in the UK has discovered that South Asians are five times more likely to be severely depressed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-british-south-asians-white-people.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:12:38 EST news290675551 The eye is covered by a clear and protective layer called the cornea, and abnormal thickness of the cornea can result in eye disease. An international research team including Chiea Chuen Khor of the A*STAR Genome Institute of Singapore has pinned down 27 genetic variations that are strongly associated with a heritable trait known as central corneal thickness (CCT). Some of these variations are also directly linked to eye diseases, so the findings may lead to better prevention and treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-identification-specific-genetic-variants-common.html Genetics Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:20:09 EST news286004465 Leicester researchers believe a new health MOT-style programme for over-40s is likely to uncover more diabetes, kidney or heart patients than expected. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-health-mot-programme-uncover-diabetes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:48:08 EST news285572881 The shape of a man's face can help predict his sporting acumen, according to a study on Wednesday that found Japanese baseball players whose faces were relatively broad rather than long were most likely to hit a home run. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-short-wide-sporting-potential.html Other Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:21:27 EST news284754077 Cases of tuberculosis reached an all-time low in the United States last year, but the disease continued to affect minorities at much higher rates than whites, health authorities said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:01:44 EST news283089697 (HealthDay)—Waist circumference measured midway (WC-mid) between the lowest ribs and the iliac crest better defines risks associated with central obesity than does waist circumference measured at the iliac crest (WC-IC), according to a study published online Dec. 28 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-midway-waist-circumference-iliac-crest.html Diabetes Wed, 06 Feb 2013 16:30:01 EST news279386720 Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders have more bleeding strokes at an earlier age than other people independent of methamphetamine abuse, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-native-hawaiians-earlier-age-independent.html Cardiology Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:16:37 EST news279378976 (HealthDay)—The prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension is lower than previously reported in school-based cohorts, according to a large community-based study published online Jan. 28 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-community-based-ids-prevalence-htn-children.html Pediatrics Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:00:01 EST news278599643 Speaking at the IOF Regionals Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting, researchers from the National University of Singapore and the Singapore Ministry of Health, announced a study which links carotenoids to decreased hip fracture risk in elderly, lean Chinese men. Elderly who are lean (BMI http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-cartenoids-hip-fracture-men.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:31:57 EST news274861724 (Medical Xpress)—Rates of diagnosed diabetes are much higher among some Asian subgroups than is apparent when aggregating all Asians as a whole, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) which appears in the current online issue of Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-pacific-islanders-south-asians-filipinos.html Diabetes Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:59:07 EST news269593141 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have published a study describing the greater difficulty in finding matched, unrelated donors for non-Caucasian patients who are candidates for hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ethnicity-affect-likelihood-suitable-unrelated.html Cancer Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:46:53 EST news266553982 Half of all people of South Asian, African and African Caribbean descent will develop diabetes by age 80 according to a new study published today. The study is the first to reveal the full extent of ethnic differences in the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and also provides some answers as to the causes of the increased risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-reveals-extent-diabetes-problem-black.html Diabetes Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:03:07 EST news266500980 (Medical Xpress) -- Scientists at the Singapore Eye Research Institute (SERI) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed an innovative way to combat post-surgical scarring for glaucoma patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-breakthrough-treatment-post-surgical-scarring-glaucoma.html Ophthalmology Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:53:27 EST news262518785 A new diabetes study at the University of Leicester has discovered that South Asians (people of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lanka origin) have higher levels of blood sugar than white Europeans independent of risk factors that influence sugar levels. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-blood-sugar-diabetes-south-asians.html Diabetes Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:44:52 EST news262345482 A new study from researchers at Queen Mary, University of London reveals the many difficulties faced by people with diabetes in self-managing their disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-approach-diabetes-self-management-narrow.html Diabetes Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:38:00 EST news253269473 One of the first things people ask new parents is how much does their baby weigh. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-babies-born-immigrants-small-incorrectly.html Health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:55:37 EST news248529323 There is an urgent need to increase the number of organ donors from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups in countries with a strong tradition of immigration, such as the UK, USA, Canada and the Netherlands, in order to tackle inequalities in access and waiting times. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-highlights-urgent-tackle-donors-bme.html Other Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:32:45 EST news248524358 One in five adults in the U.S. had a mental illness in 2010, with people ages 18 to 25 having the highest rates, according to a national survey. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-mental-illness-struck-adults.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:25:02 EST news246281089 Singapore and China scientists, headed by Dr Liu Jianjun, Senior Group Leader and Associate Director of Human Genetics at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Dr Yu Xueqing, a nephrologist at the 1st Affiliated Hospital of the Sun Yat-Sen University, have identified new susceptibility genes for the kidney disease Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy (IgAN). This discovery, reported in the advance online issue of Nature Genetics on December 25, 2011, brings scientists closer to understanding the disease and working towards its cure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-scientists-large-asian-genome-wide-association.html Genetics Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:36:35 EST news244359301 South Asian patients with coronary artery disease were almost three times as likely to be readmitted to hospital for further interventional treatment to arterial plaque than their White European counterparts, according to research in the December issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice. They were also more likely to present as an emergency and require urgent treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-south-asian-patients-require-angioplasty.html Cardiology Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:18:40 EST news241093106 A major study calling for levels of obesity among South Asians to be recalculated has been published by researchers from the University of Leicester. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-limit-south-asian-obesity.html Health Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:34:32 EST news239974465 A new analysis of teenage drug abuse finds widespread problems among whites, Native Americans, Hispanics and youngsters of multiple races, with less severe abuse among Asian and African-American teens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-white-hispanic-teens-abuse-drugs.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:00:09 EST news239897353 Age and body mass index (BMI)are important risk factors for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) particularly amongst South Asian and Black African women finds new research published today (02 November) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-age-bmi-likelihood-gestational-diabetes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:57:06 EST news239428617 Ethnic differences in appointment keeping may be an important factor in poor health outcomes among some minority patients with diabetes, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ethnic-differences-affect-health-diabetes.html Health Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:50:01 EST news238922051 (Medical Xpress) -- A University of Sydney PhD student has discovered the different diets and lifestyles of South Asians compared to Europeans could lead to the two groups requiring very different doses of medicines commonly used to treat illnesses such as depression and psychosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-south-asians-europeans-react-differently.html Medications Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:30:24 EST news237807008 An international consortium of scientists reports the discovery of five new genes that affect the risk of developing coronary artery disease (CAD) and heart attacks in a study to be published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on September 22nd. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-genes-affecting-coronary-artery-disease.html Genetics Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:42:23 EST news235935665 An international team of researchers led by Imperial College London has identified six new genetic variants associated with type-2 diabetes in South Asians. The findings, published in Nature Genetics, give scientists new leads in the search for diagnostic markers and drug targets to prevent and treat this major disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-genetic-variants-linked-diabetes-south.html Genetics Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:01:49 EST news233754888 It's not fair, but it's true. A new study by researchers at McMaster University has found that some ethnic groups are more likely to be adding dangerous fat onto their internal organs like their liver when they gain weight, while others just add it to their waistline. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-pounds-riskier-south-asians-mcmaster.html Health Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:00:02 EST news231084642 (Medical Xpress) -- Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death and disability worldwide. For South Asians, though, this global killer poses an even more sinister threat. Over the past three decades, the incidence of heart attacks and strokes among South Asians has risen steeply. Today, South Asians, even those living in other countries, are considerably more likely to die prematurely from the disease than any other group. Moreover, the increase appears to be unrelenting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-high-risk-hearts-south-asian-epidemic.html Cardiology Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:11:05 EST news228661512 For South Asians, time spent sitting down is a risk factor for diabetes which is not counteracted by time spent exercising or decreased waist size. These are the findings of a new study funded by the National Prevention Research Initiative (NPRI), which is led by the Medical Research Council. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-diabetes-south-asians-waist-size.html Health Tue, 10 May 2011 12:42:33 EST news224250135