Worse cardiometabolic health in African immigrant men than African American Men: Reconsideration of the healthy immigrant effect

Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 347-353

  O'connor, Michelle Y ^a   Thoreson, Caroline K ^a   Ricks, Madia ^a   Courville, Amber B ^b   Thomas, Francine ^b   Yao, Jianhua ^b   Katzmarzyk, Peter T ^c   Sumner, Anne E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; IMMIGRANT; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; YOUDEN INDEX; ABDOMINAL FAT; AGE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; METABOLIC DISEASES; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ABDOMINAL FAT; ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; METABOLIC DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904812674     PISSN: 15404196     EISSN: 15578518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/met.2014.0026     Document Type: Article

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