Local authors to talk about heart disease at library.(Neighbor)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  April 3, 2006 ;     307 words ......difference between heart disease rates among various...demonstrate that South Asians, including people...highest rates of heart disease in the world. Enas...highly susceptible to heart disease at a young age. Indians are developing heart disease and dying ...

Authors to show ethnicity, heart disease link.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  March 28, 2006 ;     287 words ......book How to Beat the Heart Disease Epidemic Among South Asians with cardiologist...called Ethnicity and Heart Disease. The presentation...the Rasmussen Room South. The library is located...to demonstrate that South Asians, including people...the highest rates of ...

Western Experts Battle Heart Disease

AP Online;  September 2, 2001 ;     634 words ......Experts Battle Heart Disease STOCKHOLM, Sweden...war against heart disease, leading cardiologists...evidence on heart disease in poor countries...people think that heart disease is a problem...suggested that South Asians may react more...that promote ...

VOA NEWS: STUDY EXPLAINS WHY SOUTH ASIANS HAVE MORE HEART ATTACKS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 16, 2007 ;     469 words ......By David McAlary South Asians make up 1/4 of...Indian friends whose heart disease started even earlier...average] age in South Asians for heart attack...South Asians get heart disease at an earlier age...these habits follow South ...

One in three Asians die of heart disease in the UK

The Hindustan Times;  April 28, 2006 ;     409 words ......likely to die of coronary heart disease than Britons and that no...men in three will die of heart disease. Other major findings are...fact, some 20 percent of South Asians contract this form of diabetes...high blood pressure among South Asians in the UK". The ...

Non-profit center hopes to address South Asian heart disease

India Abroad;  July 29, 2005 ;     700+ words ......South Asian with heart disease. Enas, now director...Also) Indians get heart disease at a much younger...community aware that heart disease has assumed epidemic...and treatable than heart disease," Enas says. "It...20 to 30 years." Heart disease in ...

New guide to combat heart disease in the South Asian community.

M2 Presswire;  December 17, 2004 ;     700+ words ......cutting Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) in the...Asian Community. Heart disease is the biggest...in the UK and South Asians living in the...made in tackling heart disease in the general...is clear that South Asians are more susceptible...living in Britain. ...

AAPI highlights cardiac risk to South Asians

India Abroad;  December 20, 2002 ;     528 words ......suffered a massive heart attack, leaving...the point that heart disease is rising alarmingly...by unexpected heart disease," Dr. Grewal...alarming incidence of heart disease and cardiac risk...Diabetes and heart disease with morbidity...health issues in ...

Hidden heart hazards; do high blood insulin levels foretell heart disease?

Science News;  September 16, 1989 ;     700+ words ...Hidden Heart Hazards Controversial...the bloodstream to heart disease. If confirmed, it...new predictor of heart disease risk and could force...nondiabetics to develop heart disease, running a coronary...greater-than-average risk of heart disease -- a notion ...

South Asians at Risk for Heart Disease, Diabetes; Stanford recommends diet...

AsianWeek;  June 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ......a lecture on the human heart last Thursday evening...presentation on the high rate of heart disease and type 2 diabetes among...of the highest rates of heart disease in the world. Research...which can lead to coronary heart disease, said Reaven, who is renowned...in type 2 ...

Risk of diabetes related amputation in South Asians vs Europeans in the...

The Diabetic Foot;  March 22, 2002 ;     286 words ......factors for diabetes-related amputations in South Asians and Europeans. Methods The case control study...and at time of case amputation were lower in South Asians. Furthmore, South Asians were less likely to be, or have ever been...

Diabetes and CVD in South Asians: a review.

Diabetes and Primary Care;  November 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the literature on diabetes and CVD in South Asians and to discuss novel options for improving...this high-risk population. Key words - South Asians - Cardiovascular disease - Novel healthcare...CV risk profile more commonly seen in South Asians (McKeigue et al, 1991). This is ...

The metabolic syndrome in South Asians: Continuing escalation & possible...

Indian Journal of Medical Research;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......mellitus (T2DM) and coronary heart disease (CHD) in South Asians. Approximately 20-25 per...mellitus (T2DM) and coronary heart disease (CHD)12; important determinants...cardiovascular risk factors in South Asians was initially reported from...

Diabetes and CVD in South Asians: a review.(cardiovascular diseases)

Journal of Diabetes Nursing;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......the literature on diabetes and CVD in South Asians and to discuss novel options for improving...CV risk profile more commonly seen in South Asians (McKeigue et al, 1991). This is further...have been very few genetic studies in South Asians. Despite the widely-held belief that...

South Asians in Britain.

History Today;  September 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Although South Asians had been coming to Britain during...Thousands of semi-skilled and unskilled South Asians came to work in the textile and steel...African empire from the 1960s onwards, South Asians, whom it had recruited to help run...