...://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Aims South Asian individuals living outside the Indian subcontinent are under-represented in cardiac rehabilitation (CR), despite facing...

... Hypertension Risk factors South Asian With a population of 4.7 billion, Asia is home to more than 60% of humankind. ¹ Besides the Asian continent, many countries around the world including various European nations have large, rapidly growing communities of people of Asian ancestry. ²...

... of hospital cardiac arrest black population white population tachycardia fibrillation cardiopulmonary resuscitation South Asian Hispanic minority care Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) is a leading cause of cardiovascular mortality ^{1 , 2} with significant variation in survival...

... variant in MYBPC3, a 25-base pair deletion that leads to the loss of the splicing branch point in intron 32. ^{19 , 21 , 33 , 34} This variant affects approximately 100 million South Asians and is associated with HCM...

.... False discovery rate (FDR) correction for multiple testing was used. In order to acknowledge the variation in age distribution between these populations, data were also examined in three age groups. Aims Previous studies indicate that South Asians (SAs) may have a reduced risk of developing atrial...

.... The process entailed ensuring that the articles met the inclusion criteria and focused specifically on South Asians’ adherence to medications associated with CVD. Concerns regarding the quality and consistency (e.g. measurement of adherence, design) of the studies led to each article being reviewed...

... itself, with South Asians being disadvantage compared with White people. To our knowledge, there are no studies that have measured preferences of antihypertensives specifically in South Asians and compared them with Caucasians. To establish people's willingness to receive anti-hypertensive drug...

.... Hypertension was defined as a BP ≥ 140/90 mmHg, or being on antihypertensive therapy. It is not known whether the prevalence of prehypertension differs between the populations of South Asian descent and their white counterparts. Recent studies have also shown different BP patterns among the populations...

...Mohsen Aarabi; Peter R Jackson Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Division of Clinical Sciences (South), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2JF, UK. Tel: +44 114 271 2615; fax: +44 114 272 0275; e-mail: [email protected] coronary disease South Asian...

.../funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Background Studies of South Asian immigrants in different countries have reported an increased predisposition to cardiovascular disease in comparison with the native populations. Design This study is a systematic review of longitudinal studies investigating...

... regarding the prevalence, awareness, severity, treatment, and complications of major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. Relative to white Europeans, stroke mortality is almost doubled in South Asians and Afro-Caribbeans; however, when coronary artery disease mortality is considered, it is high...

... to ethnicity are widely documented, particularly the increased coronary mortality of South Asians (people of Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and Bangladeshi origin) compared with indigenous white populations. Inequalities affecting black populations are more heterogeneous, with people of African or Caribbean...