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ArticleCurrent cardiovascular risk reports2023

Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk among South Asian Americans.

Ashwini Deshpande, Nilay S Shah, Namratha R Kandula

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Article in Current cardiovascular risk reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ashwini DeshpandeUniversity of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Nilay S ShahDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Namratha R KandulaDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Northwestern University · USUniversity of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

Research Design, Data, and Analytics CoreP30DK092949 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI Ronald T. Ackermann, MARSHALL H CHIN · 2011 to 2026
$10.0M
MASALA-2G: Multi-level Assessment of the South Asian Life-course of Atherosclerosis (2nd Generation Offspring Study)K23HL157766 · NHLBI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI SHAH, NILAY S. · 2021 to 2025
$873k
Mentoring in community engaged implementation research to reduce cardiovascular disparitiesK24HL155897 · NHLBI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI KANDULA, NAMRATHA R · 2021 to 2025
$729k
NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL157766NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL155897NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK092949
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose of review: South Asian Americans experience higher cardiometabolic risk and disproportionately high rates of cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to other racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The purpose of this review is to summarize recent evidence about the role of obesity in CVD risk in South Asian Americans and identify key evidence gaps and future directions for research and interventions for obesity in this group. Recent findings: South Asian Americans are predisposed to abdominal obesity and have a higher distribution of visceral fat, intermuscular fat, and intrahepatic fat compared to adults of other race and ethnic groups. In this population, the risk for cardiometabolic disease appears to be elevated even at a normal body mass index. Social, cultural, religious, interpersonal, and environmental factors are related to obesity and obesity-related behaviors among South Asian Americans. Summary: There is a relatively high prevalence of obesity in South Asian-origin populations in the United States, who have unique socio-cultural determinants of overweight and obesity. Future research should clarify why the risk for metabolic disease and CVD is elevated at normal BMI in the South Asian American population, and environmental and other structural factors that may influence obesity in this group. Interventions must be adapted to the social and cultural context of South Asian Americans to improve effectiveness and implementation.

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cardiovascular riskobesitySouth Asian

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PMID37009309
PMCPMC10063226
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