Cardiometabolic health in African immigrants to the United States: A call to re-examine research on African-descent populations

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 373-380

  Commodore Mensah, Yvonne ^a   Himmelfarb, Cheryl Dennison ^a   Agyemang, Charles ^b   Sumner, Anne E ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

African diaspora; African immigrants; Cardiometabolic health; Cardiovascular disease; Health disparities; Migration

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AFRICAN CARIBBEAN; BLACK PERSON; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDEMIC; ETHNICITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMIGRANT; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIGRATION; OBESITY; RACE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; ANCESTRY GROUP; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; MIGRANT;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; OBESITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962617775     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: 19450826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18865/ed.25.3.373     Document Type: Review

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