Asian
Asian: Asian race as a risk factor
Description: Asian American/Pacific Islander women may be of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, Native Hawaiian, or other Asian or Pacific Island ancestry. Nearly 75% of this population group are foreign-born, including an increasing number of immigrants and refugees from Southeast Asia.6 The 5.4 million females in this population group who are not of Hispanic origin comprised 3.8% of all U.S. females in 1999.1
Condition count: 2; see list of conditions below.
Related risk factors: geography (44), Asia (17)
Risk factor classes: Race (35)
Risk factors: Risk Factor Center, risk factor list
Conditions list: The following list of conditions have 'Asian' or similar listed as a risk factor in our database:
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Footnotes:
1. excerpt from The Health of Minority Women: NWHIC
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