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The Anxiety of Being Asian American: Hate Crimes and Negative Biases During the COVID-19 Pandemic

American Journal of Criminal Justice, 2020
In this essay, we review how the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic that began in the United States in early 2020 has elevated the risks of Asian Americans to hate crimes and Asian American businesses to vandalism.
Meera Choi, Grace Kao, Hannah Tessler
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Aggregation of Asian-American subgroups masks meaningful differences in health and health risks among Asian ethnicities: an electronic health record based cohort study

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Few large cohort studies have examined the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension (HTN), coronary artery disease (CAD), obesity, and smoking among middle-aged and older adults in the major Asian-American ethnic groups and Native ...
Nancy P. Gordon, Teresa Y. Lin, Jyoti Rau, Joan C. Lo   +3 more
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Not just ‘Asian’ but Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Chinese, and mixed Asian American: Examining depression in an ethnically heterogenous sample of Asian American young adults [PDF]

Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
To date, most research focused on depression prevalence is with adolescents or adults and focuses mainly on risk factors, with few studies assessing factors related to depression for Asian American young adults. Using longitudinal data collected from web-
Rupa Jose, Anthony Rodriguez, Elizabeth J. D’Amico   +2 more
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Trends in cardiovascular mortality among disaggregated Asian American subgroups: 2018-2022 [PDF]

American Journal of Preventive Cardiology
Background: Asian Americans, one of the fastest-growing racial groups, experienced an increase in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
David H. Yang, So Hee Naomi Ahn, Thirumagal Gowrikanthan, Franco Miguel Valencia, Karin Kai Wing Wang, Jasmin Choi, Lester Andrew Uy, Armaan Jamal, Nilay S. Shah, Nitya Rajeshuni, Gloria Kim, Malathi Srinivasan, Latha Palaniappan, Adrian Matias Bacong   +13 more
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Obesity among Asian American people in the United States: A review

Obesity, 2023
Standard measures of obesity, i.e., body weight and BMI, suggest that Asian American people have a lower obesity prevalence than other racial groups in the United States.
Zhaoping Li, Sunil Daniel, K. Fujioka, D. Umashanker   +3 more
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Anti-Asian American Hate Crimes Spike During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2022
The recent high-profile cases of hate crimes in the U.S., especially those targeting Asian Americans, have raised concerns about their risk of victimization.
Sungil Han, Jordan R. Riddell, A. Piquero   +2 more
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Hira Makes a Sound: Nepali Diasporic Worldviewing through Asian American Studies Praxis during the COVID-19 Anti-Asian Hate Pandemics

Religions, 2023
In this article, we offer a specific example from our programmatic research and teaching praxis during the COVID-19 anti-Asian hate pandemic period.
Kim Soun Ty, Shirley Suet-ling Tang, Parmita Gurung, Ammany Ty, Nia Duong, Peter Nien-chu Kiang   +5 more
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Hira Makes a Sound: Sustaining High-Impact AANAPISI Innovation in an Asian American Studies Environment before and beyond the COVID-19 Anti-Asian Hate Pandemic

Education Sciences, 2023
This article first describes two high-impact, foundational examples in Asian American Studies over three decades that successfully established and sustained inclusive and equitable educational environments at an urban, public, and federally designated ...
Peter Nien-chu Kiang, Shirley Suet-ling Tang, Kim Soun Ty, Parmita Gurung, Ammany Ty, Nia Duong   +5 more
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The Mutually Reinforcing Cycle Of Poor Data Quality And Racialized Stereotypes That Shapes Asian American Health

Health Affairs, 2022
The Asian American health narrative reflects a long history of structural racism in the US and the complex interplay of racialized history, immigrant patterns, and policies regarding Asians in the US.
S. Yi, S. Kwon, Rachel Suss, Lan N. Ðoàn, Iyanrick John, N. Islam, C. Trinh-Shevrin   +6 more
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Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease Mortality in Asian American Subgroups

Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2022
Background: Asian American individuals comprise the fastest-growing race and ethnic group in the United States. Certain subgroups may be at disproportionately high cardiovascular risk.
Nilay S. Shah, Kevin Xi, K. Kapphahn, M. Srinivasan, Timothy K. H. Au, Vedant Sathye, Vaibhav Vishal, Han Zhang, L. Palaniappan   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source