Cross-cultural differences in depression between white British and South Asians: causal attributions, stigma by association, discriminatory potential [PDF]
, 2023 Objectives. Numerous facets of public and internalized mental illness stigma have been established. This study focuses on the stigma of being associated with someone with depression, and cultural differences between a Western and an Eastern culture.
Mitchell, Briana L. +3 more
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Adipocytokine Associations with Insulin Resistance in British South Asians
Journal of Diabetes Research, 2013 Aims. Adipocytokines are implicated in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes and may represent identifiable precursors of metabolic disease within high-risk groups.
D. R. Webb +4 more
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Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2005 BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B (HBV) is endemic and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Asia. British Columbia has the highest proportion of Chinese and Southeast Asians among all Canadian provinces.
Justin Cheung +5 more
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Testing message framing to increase physical activity among British South Asians
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2017 Objective: British South Asians (BSAs) experience a higher incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD) which is not declining in line with the UK national average. Low physical activity levels are likely to contribute to this elevated risk.
A. K. Daffu-O'Reilly +2 more
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Asians and Friends, Dallas Inc.
, 1995 A press release from the Asians and Friends Dallas promoting the international Friendship Weekend, an annual convention of gay Asians and their ...
Asians and Friends Dallas, Inc.
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Contesting identities : Representing British South Asians in Damien O'Donnell's "East is East"
Journal of English Studies, 2010 The presence of Asian in Great Britain has added a new perspective to debates about notions such as ‘identity’, ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘Englishness’. East is East (Damien O’Donnell, 1999) explores the culture clash that occurs in the context of a half ...
Sarah Zapata
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Ethnic variation in the prevalence of visual impairment in people attending diabetic retinopathy screening in the United Kingdom (DRIVE UK). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 To provide estimates of visual impairment in people with diabetes attending screening in a multi-ethnic population in England (United Kingdom).The Diabetic Retinopathy In Various Ethnic groups in UK (DRIVE UK) Study is a cross-sectional study on the ...
Sobha Sivaprasad +6 more
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Hinduism, Belief and the Colonial Invention of Religion: A before and after Comparison
Religions, 2022 As known from the academic literature on Hinduism, the foreign, Persian word, “Hindu” (meaning “Indian”), was used by the British to name everything indigenously South Asian, which was not Islam, as a religion.
Shyam Ranganathan
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The feasibility of culturally adapted computerised cognitive remediation for first-episode psychosis
BJPsych OpenBackground British South Asians have a greater incidence of psychotic illness, which is associated with cognitive deficits. Computerised cognitive remediation aims to improve cognition.
Claire Press +5 more
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Bi‐ and Mono‐Allelic RFC1 Expansion in a North American Cohort With Idiopathic Axonal Neuropathy
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective RFC1 biallelic repeat expansion is increasingly recognized as a cause of chronic idiopathic axonal polyneuropathy (CIAP), but it remains challenging to know who to test. This study aims to determine the prevalence of biallelic and monoallelic RFC1 expansions and their corresponding neuropathy phenotypes in CIAP patients and identify ...
Amro M. Stino +25 more
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