Cardiovascular risk factors and knowledge of symptoms among vietnamese Americans

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 238-243

  Nguyen, Tung T ^a   Liao, Youlian ^b   Gildengorin, Ginny ^a   Tsoh, Janice ^c   Bui Tong, Ngoc ^d   McPhee, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian; Cardiovascular disease; Disparities; Epidemiology; Vietnamese

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STROKE; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58649106671     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-008-0889-1     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Reeves TJ, Bennett CE. The Asian and Pacific Islander Population in the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau; 2003. Current Population Reports P20-540.
2. U.S. Census Bureau. The American Community-Asians: 2004. The American Community Survey Reports. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce; 2007.
3. S [tmp] McPhee C Jenkins S Hung 1992 Behavioral risk factor survey of Vietnamese-California, 1991 Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 41 5 69 72
4. CN Jenkins T Le SJ [tmp] McPhee S Stewart NT Ha 1996 Health care access and preventive care among Vietnamese immigrants: do traditional beliefs and practices pose barriers? Soc Sci Med 43 7 1049 1056
5. SJ [tmp] McPhee JA Bird T Davis NT Ha CN Jenkins B Le 1997 Barriers to breast and cervical cancer screening among Vietnamese-American women Am J Prev Med 13 3 205 213
6. SJ [tmp] McPhee S Stewart KC Brock JA Bird CN Jenkins GQ Pham 1997 Factors associated with breast and cervical cancer screening practices among Vietnamese American women Cancer Detection and Prevention 21 6 510 521
7. T Nguyen PH Vo SJ [tmp] McPhee CN Jenkins 2001 Promoting early detection of breast cancer among Vietnamese-American women. Results of a controlled trial Cancer 91 1 Suppl 267 273
8. SJ [tmp] McPhee 2002 Caring for a 70-year-old Vietnamese woman JAMA 287 4 495 504
9. TT Nguyen SJ [tmp] McPhee T Nguyen T Lam J Mock 2002 Predictors of cervical Pap smear screening awareness, intention, and receipt among Vietnamese-American women Am J Prev Med 23 3 207 214
10. TT Nguyen SJ [tmp] McPhee G Gildengorin 2006 Papanicolaou testing among Vietnamese Americans: results of a multifaceted intervention Am J Prev Med 31 1 1 9
11. TT Nguyen SJ [tmp] McPhee N Bui-Tong 2006 Community-based participatory research increases cervical cancer screening among Vietnamese-Americans J Health Care Poor Underserved 17 2 Suppl 31 54
12. J Mock SJ [tmp] McPhee T Nguyen 2007 Effective lay health worker outreach and media-based education for promoting cervical cancer screening among Vietnamese American women Am J Public Health 97 9 1693 1700
13. Miller BA, Kolonel LN, Bernstein L, et al. Racial/Ethnic Patterns of Cancer in the United States 1988-1992. NIH Publ. No. 96-4104. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute; 1996.
14. Cockburn M, Deapen D, eds. Cancer Incidence and Mortality in California: Trends by Race/Ethnicity, 1988-2001. Los Angeles, California: University of Southern California; 2004.
15. National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States 2005. Hyattsville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2005.
16. H Ueshima A Okayama S Saitoh 2003 Differences in cardiovascular disease risk factors between Japanese in Japan and Japanese-Americans in Hawaii: the INTERLIPID study J Hum Hypertens 17 9 631 639
17. GK Singh BA Miller 2004 Health, life expectancy, and mortality patterns among immigrant populations in the United States Can J Public Health 95 3 I14 I21
18. TM Pham MP Rosenthal JJ Diamond 1999 Hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and health care dilemmas in the Philadelphia Vietnamese community Fam Med 31 9 647 651
19. DA Duong AS Bohannon MC Ross 2001 A descriptive study of hypertension in Vietnamese Americans J Community Health Nurs 18 1 1 11
20. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Cardiovascular Risk in the Vietnamese Community: Formative Research from Houston, Texas. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2003.
21. SJ [tmp] McPhee TT Nguyen 2000 Cancer, cancer risk factors, and community-based cancer control trials in Vietnamese Americans Asian Am Pac Isl J Health 8 1 18 31 Winter
22. MM Rahman NT Luong HA Divan 2005 Prevalence and predictors of smoking behavior among Vietnamese men living in California Nicotine Tob Res 7 1 103 109
23. S Koch-Weser D Grigg-Saito S Liang 2004 Health status of Cambodian and Vietnamese Americans compared with that of all Asian Americans and the U.S. Population - - Analysis of data from the REACH 2010 Risk Factor Survey Morbidity Mortality Weekly Reports 53 33 760 764
24. WH Giles P Tucker L Brown 2004 Racial and ethnic approaches to community health (REACH 2010): an overview Ethn Dis 14 3 Suppl 1 S5 S8 Summer
25. Y Liao P Tucker CA Okoro WH Giles AH Mokdad VB Harris 2004 REACH 2010 Surveillance for Health Status in Minority Communities-United States, 2001-2002 MMWR Surveill Summ 53 6 1 36 Aug 27
26. AH Mokdad DF Stroup WH Giles 2003 Public health surveillance for behavioral risk factors in a changing environment. Recommendations from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Team MMWR Recomm Rep 52 RR-9 1 12 May 23
27. RR Pate M Pratt SN Blair 1995 Physical activity and public health. A recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine JAMA 273 5 402 407
28. KJ Greenlund NL Keenan WH Giles 2004 Public recognition of major signs and symptoms of heart attack: seventeen states and the US Virgin Islands, 2001 Am Heart J 147 6 1010 1016 Jun
29. BF Zhou 2002 Effect of body mass index on all-cause mortality and incidence of cardiovascular diseases-report for meta-analysis of prospective studies open optimal cut-off points of body mass index in Chinese adults Biomed Environ Sci 15 3 245 252
30. Z Bei-Fan 2002 Predictive values of body mass index and waist circumference for risk factors of certain related diseases in Chinese adults: study on optimal cut-off points of body mass index and waist circumference in Chinese adults Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 11 Suppl 8 S685 693
31. DS Lauderdale PJ Rathouz 2000 Body mass index in a US national sample of Asian Americans: effects of nativity, years since immigration and socioeconomic status Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 24 9 1188 1194
32. California Tobacco Control Section. Adult Smoking Prevalence. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Health Services; 2006.
33. CN Jenkins SJ [tmp] McPhee A Le GQ Pham NT Ha S Stewart 1997 The effectiveness of a media-led intervention to reduce smoking among Vietnamese-American men Am J Public Health 87 6 1031 1034 Jun
34. SH Zhu CM Anderson CE Johnson G Tedeschi A Roeseler 2000 A centralised telephone service for tobacco cessation: the California experience Tob Control 9 Suppl 2 II48 II55
35. H Tang R Shimizu MS Chen Jr 2005 English language proficiency and smoking prevalence among California's Asian Americans Cancer 104 12 Suppl 2982 2988 Dec 15
36. X Chen JB Unger TB Cruz CA Johnson 1999 Smoking patterns of Asian-American youth in California and their relationship with acculturation J Adolesc Health 24 5 321 328 May
37. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthy People 2010. 2nd ed. With Understanding and Improving Health and Objectives for Improving Health, 2 vols. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2000.
38. N Dien le NM Thang ME Bentley 2004 Food consumption patterns in the economic transition in Vietnam Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 13 1 40 47
39. GG Harrison M Kagawa-Singer SB Foerster 2005 Seizing the moment: California's opportunity to prevent nutrition-related health disparities in low-income Asian American population Cancer 104 12 Suppl 2962 2968
40. DE Nelson D Holtzman J Bolen CA Stanwyck KA Mack 2001 Reliability and validity of measures from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Soz Praventivmed 46 Suppl 1 S3 42