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Asian Drinking Cultures in New Zealand: A Scoping Review

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2022
Alcohol use causes harm across most populations. However, comparatively little research and policy attention has been paid to drinking cultures among Asian people.
Jeffery Adams   +5 more
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Interrogating the ‘White-Leaning’ Thesis of White–Asian Multiracials

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
The study of multiracial people in the United States has typically focused on the experiences of Black–White racially-mixed individuals. In this article, we review and analyze the theoretical and evidence base for the White-leaning characterization of ...
Kelly H. Chong, Miri Song
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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
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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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Avanafil use in patients with erectile dysfunction and co-morbidities: Clinical insights from multiple aetiologies – A case series [PDF]

open access: yesMalaysian Family Physician
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a prevalent medical problem affecting men globally, particularly those with co-morbidities such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, dyslipidaemia and diabetes.
Shaiful Bahari Ismail   +3 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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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

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
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Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes in Japan and East Asian populations: Basic and clinical explorations

open access: yesProceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and Biological Sciences
It is now accepted that the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes in East Asians including Japanese differs distinctly from that in Caucasians. Many non-obese individuals in Japan develop type 2 diabetes and present clinically with insufficient insulin ...
Yutaka SEINO, Yuji YAMAZAKI
doaj   +1 more source

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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