Perceived Ethnic Discrimination and the Metabolic Syndrome in Ethnic Minority Groups: The Healthy Life in an Urban Setting Study

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 101-111

  Ikram, Umar Z ^a   Snijder, Marieke B ^a   Agyemang, Charles ^a   Schene, Aart H ^b,c   Peters, Ron J G ^a   Stronks, Karien ^a   Kunst, Anton E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

discrimination; ethnic inequalities; ethnic minority groups; Europe; HELIUS study; metabolic syndrome; social epidemiology

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AFRICAN SURINAMESE; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; GHANAIAN; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MINORITY GROUP; MOROCCAN; NETHERLANDS; PERCEIVED ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACISM; SOUTH ASIAN SURINAMESE; SURINAMESE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TURK (PEOPLE); URBAN AREA; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; ASIA; BLACK PERSON; ETHNOLOGY; GHANA; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; PREJUDICE; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURINAME; TURKEY; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIA, WESTERN; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; PREJUDICE; RACISM; REGISTRIES; SURINAME; TURKEY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84976581487     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000350     Document Type: Article

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