An international research consortium led by the University of Helsinki has performed the largest study to date evaluating transferability of genome-wide polygenic risk scores across ancestries. Polygenic risk scores (PRS) ...
Apr 14, 2022
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(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 ...
Oct 14, 2011
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A health education class tailored to South Asian culture was associated with improvements in certain cardiac risk factors and lower odds of death among participants, a new study shows.
Nov 16, 2021
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South Asians are more likely to die of heart disease, such as heart attacks and strokes caused by atherosclerosis—the disease process that narrows arteries—than East Asians and non-Hispanic whites living in the United ...
May 24, 2018
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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 ...
Aug 28, 2011
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A Rutgers graduate student is striving to reduce the chances that his fellow South Asians will acquire diabetes by getting them to alter their traditional, high-carb diet. South Asians are four times more likely than other ...
Sep 22, 2014
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Lower amounts of brown adipose tissue (BAT, or 'brown fat') could help explain why south Asians—who make up a fifth of the world's population—have an exceptionally high susceptibility to developing metabolic problems ...
Nov 11, 2013
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Ethnicity plays a significant role in the likelihood of developing certain diseases, such as diabetes. South Asians, for example, are known to be more insulin resistant than other Asians, and scientists have long believed ...
Nov 5, 2014
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(HealthDay)—Prediabetes is associated with incident cardiovascular disease (CVD), although correlations vary with ethnicity and prediabetes definition, according to a study published online Oct. 20 in Diabetes Care.
Nov 2, 2015
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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 ...
Sep 22, 2011
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