Advancing pharmacogenomic research in US Hmong populations: prevalence of key single nucleotide variations in California Hmong [PDF]
Frontiers in PharmacologyIntroductionIn collaboration with the Minnesota Hmong community, we have previously discovered significant differences in allele frequencies for key Single Nucleotide Variations (SNVs) within Very Important Pharmacogenes (VIPs) between Hmong and East ...
Boguang Sun +8 more
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Women and Religion: "Mennonite Hmong"
Refuge, 1987 The Hmong of Laos, a traditionally animist and preliterate people, speak a Sino-Tibetan language and are culturally close to the Chinese. Due to their strategic location and scouting and fighting skills, the Hmong were singled out during the war in ...
Daphne Abergel
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Barriers to Diabetes Management Among Hmong: Patients’ and Physicians’ Perspectives [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2021 The Hmong, an ethnic group from Laos, have a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus type 2 than non-Hispanic Whites, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese [1, 2, 3].
Lue Lao +3 more
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Hmong transnational identity: the gendering of contested discourses [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2004 Hmong women throughout the diaspora are increasingly expressing ‘what it means to be Hmong’ and ‘what it means to be a Hmong woman’ in a variety of media that constitute western popular culture. At the same time, Hmong women residing in different nation-
Roberta Julian
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Literacy and L'Armee Clandestine: The Writings of the Hmong Military Scribes* [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2000 While histories of Hmong literacy development in Laos have focused on the role of village schools, the arrival of missionary Christianity, and the development of various Hmong religious alphabets, one site for Hmong literacy development has been ...
John Duffy
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Stroke Characteristics in a Cohort of Hmong American Patients
Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2023 Background Prior studies have indicated high rates of vascular risk factors, but little is known about stroke in Hmong. Methods and Results The institutional Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) database was used to identify patients discharged with acute ...
Haitham M. Hussein +6 more
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Hmong Political Involvement in St. Paul, Minnesota and Fresno, California [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2009 Over the past several years, Hmong in the United States have gained prominence for their increasing involvement in politics. Most of the attention has understandably focused on Fresno, California and St.
Yang Lor
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Migration of Hmong to Rochester, Minnesota: Life in the Midwest [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2003 This study was designed to investigate one of the newest refugee groups to the Midwestern United States, the Hmong refugees from Laos, China, Vietnam and Thailand.
Cathleen Jo Faruque
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Loyal Soldier, Fearsome Terrorists: The Hmong as a Martial Race in Southeast Asia and the United States [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2020 Martial race theory, an ideological construction used to organize colonial hegemony, acted as a lens through which the French and the United States understood the Hmong in Southeast Asia.
Alex Hopp
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Commentary: Challenges and Complexity in the Re-Construction of Hmong History [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2009 In the past 30 years various accounts of Hmong history have emerged from Hmong and non-Hmong scholars working in the United States, other Diaspora countries and Asia.
Kou Yang
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