Asian Americans

"Asian Americans" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent.

Descriptor ID	D001213
MeSH Number(s)	M01.686.508.200.100 M01.686.754.225
Concept/Terms	Asian Americans Asian Americans Americans, Asian Asian American Japanese Americans Japanese Americans Americans, Japanese Japanese American Chinese Americans Chinese Americans Americans, Chinese Chinese American Vietnamese Americans Vietnamese Americans American, Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese Vietnamese American Asian Indian Americans Asian Indian Americans Asian Indian American Indian American, Asian Cambodian Americans Cambodian Americans American, Cambodian Americans, Cambodian Cambodian American Hmong Americans Hmong Americans Americans, Hmong Hmong American Korean Americans Korean Americans American, Korean Americans, Korean Korean American Filipino Americans Filipino Americans Americans, Filipino Filipino American

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Named Groups [M]
Persons [M01]
Population Groups [M01.686]
Continental Population Groups [M01.686.508]
Asian Continental Ancestry Group [M01.686.508.200]
Asian Americans [M01.686.508.200.100]
Ethnic Groups [M01.686.754]
Asian Americans [M01.686.754.225]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Asian Americans" by people in this website by year, and whether "Asian Americans" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 355 publications over 28 distinct years, with a maximum of 28 publications in 2013 and 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1992	1	0	1
1994	1	2	3
1995	1	1	2
1996	4	1	5
1997	6	1	7
1998	1	3	4
1999	2	1	3
2000	2	5	7
2001	3	4	7
2002	4	4	8
2003	6	4	10
2004	7	9	16
2005	15	9	24
2006	8	3	11
2007	8	9	17
2008	7	13	20
2009	6	3	9
2010	6	6	12
2011	13	9	22
2012	8	17	25
2013	17	11	28
2014	12	16	28
2015	11	15	26
2016	8	6	14
2017	11	10	21
2018	10	8	18
2019	4	2	6
2020	0	1	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Asian Americans" by people in Profiles.

Desai R, Patel U, Parekh T, Hanna B, Sitammagari K, Fong HK, Lodhi MU, Varma Y, Damarlapally N, Doshi R, Savani S, Kumar G, Sachdeva R. Nationwide Trends in Prevalent Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Diseases in Young Adults: Differences by Sex and Race and In-Hospital Outcomes. South Med J. 2020 06; 113(6):311-319.

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Wu Y, Uchima O, Browne C, Braun K. Healthy Life Expectancy in 2010 for Native Hawaiian, White, Filipino, Japanese, and Chinese Americans Living in Hawai'i. Asia Pac J Public Health. 2019 10; 31(7):659-670.

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Panizza CE, Lim U, Yonemori KM, Cassel KD, Wilkens LR, Harvie MN, Maskarinec G, Delp EJ, Lampe JW, Shepherd JA, Le Marchand L, Boushey CJ. Effects of Intermittent Energy Restriction Combined with a Mediterranean Diet on Reducing Visceral Adiposity: A Randomized Active Comparator Pilot Study. Nutrients. 2019 Jun 20; 11(6).

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Mahajan H, Choo J, Masaki K, Fujiyoshi A, Guo J, Evans R, Shangguan S, Willcox B, Barinas-Mitchell E, Kadota A, Miura K, Kuller L, Shin C, Ueshima H, Sekikawa A. Serum long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and aortic calcification in middle-aged men: The population-based cross-sectional ERA-JUMP study. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2019 08; 29(8):837-846.

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Uchima O, Wu YY, Browne C, Braun KL. Disparities in Diabetes Prevalence Among Native Hawaiians/Other Pacific Islanders and Asians in Hawai'i. Prev Chronic Dis. 2019 02 21; 16:E22.

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Kataoka-Yahiro M, Davis J, Gandhi K, Rhee CM, Page V. Asian Americans & chronic kidney disease in a nationally representative cohort. BMC Nephrol. 2019 01 09; 20(1):10.

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Setiawan VW, Stram DO, Porcel J, Chari ST, Maskarinec G, Le Marchand L, Wilkens LR, Haiman CA, Pandol SJ, Monroe KR. Pancreatic Cancer Following Incident Diabetes in African Americans and Latinos: The Multiethnic Cohort. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2019 01 01; 111(1):27-33.

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Park SY, Kang M, Wilkens LR, Shvetsov YB, Harmon BE, Shivappa N, Wirth MD, Hébert JR, Haiman CA, Le Marchand L, Boushey CJ. The Dietary Inflammatory Index and All-Cause, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer Mortality in the Multiethnic Cohort Study. Nutrients. 2018 Dec 01; 10(12).

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Lim U, Monroe KR, Buchthal S, Fan B, Cheng I, Kristal BS, Lampe JW, Hullar MA, Franke AA, Stram DO, Wilkens LR, Shepherd J, Ernst T, Le Marchand L. Propensity for Intra-abdominal and Hepatic Adiposity Varies Among Ethnic Groups. Gastroenterology. 2019 03; 156(4):966-975.e10.

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Ferrer A, Katz AR, Hurwitz EL, Pham T. Hepatitis B Prevalence and Risk Factors in a Foreign-Born Asian and Pacific Islander Population at a Community Health Center in Hawai'i. Asia Pac J Public Health. 2018 11; 30(8):727-736.

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