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Depressive symptoms are doubled in older British South Asian and Black Caribbean people compared with Europeans: associations with excess co-morbidity and socioeconomic disadvantage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Background: Despite elevated risk profiles for depression among South Asian and Black Caribbean people in the UK, prevalences of late-life depressive symptoms across the UK’s three major ethnic groups have not been well characterised.
Hughes, AD   +13 more
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Considering factors for breast reconstruction using stacked profunda artery perforator flaps in an Asian patient: a case report [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
In cases where there is insufficient abdominal tissue or a history of previous abdominal surgery, thigh tissue may be considered as an alternative for reconstruction.
Jooyeop Lee   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Racial differences in longitudinal toxicities of anticancer agents in early phase cancer clinical trials

open access: yesCancer Medicine, 2023
Background Racial differences have been reported in toxicity outcomes for anticancer drug treatments. However, these observations were often from studies with small sample sizes, and many only reported the maximum grade of toxicity and no longitudinal ...
Junki Mizusawa   +5 more
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Developing a culturally relevant bioethics for Asian people [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Medical Ethics, 2001
Because of cultural differences between East and West, any attempt at outright adaptation of Western ideas in Asia will undoubtly encounter problems, if not rejection. Transferring an idea from one place to another is just like transplanting an organ from a donor to a recipient—rejection is to be expected.
M C, Tai, C S, Lin
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Asian Peoples' Views on Japanese

open access: yesKodo Keiryogaku (The Japanese Journal of Behaviormetrics), 2003
The main objective of this paper is to investigate East & South East Asian peoples' views on Japanese as represented in the response data of the Japanese census 1997-98 by the National Institute for Japanese Language. Firstly, we summarize the historical and social backgrounds of those 10 Asian countries under investigation, concerning their conditions
YOSHINO, Ryozo   +2 more
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State-level cultural tightness–looseness accounts for implicit associations between American and White identities

open access: yesCurrent Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2022
The present research tested whether cultural tightness–looseness accounts for implicit associations between American and ethnic identities. Two datasets from Project Implicit were used to assess the extent to which the concepts American vs.
Henry Lopez, Thierry Devos, Angela Somo
doaj   +1 more source

Outcomes of facial skin cancer treatment using local skin flaps at Can Tho City Oncology Hospital from 2021 to 2023 [PDF]

open access: yesSurgical & Cosmetic Dermatology
BACKGROUND: Reconstructive surgery remains the primary approach for treating facial skin cancer, aiming to restore both anatomy and aesthetics. Local flaps are commonly preferred for facial reconstruction.
Du Van Truong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Suicide rates in people of South Asian origin in England and Wales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A notable finding in McKenzie et al's study1 of suicide rates in people of South Asian origin is that the high relative rates in younger Asian women reported in previous research studies are found in the 1993–98 data-set but not that for 1999–2003, which
Aspinall, Peter J., Peter J. Aspinall
core   +2 more sources

Masculinity & Asian Identity

open access: yes, 2021
This flyer promotes the Center for American Asian Studies' community and panel discussion over masculinity and Asian identity.Asian American ...
Center for Asian American Studies
core   +1 more source

Microcirculatory rarefaction in South Asians - a potential mechanism for increased cardiovascular risk and diabetes.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
People of South Asian descent have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes, but little is known about the microcirculation in South Asian people despite evidence that this plays an important role in the aetiology of CVD.
Alun D Hughes   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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