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Analysis of blood-based biomarkers may be a reliable method to predict behavioral issues in older populations of Asian descent with varied neuropathology, researchers reported in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Use of SGLT2 inhibitors was associated with improved kidney health among a diverse multiethnic cohort of Asian adults with type 2 diabetes, researchers found in a retrospective cohort study.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis aged younger than 40 years are more than twice as likely to receive biologic or targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs vs. older individuals, according to data.

Long-term albuminuria risks for U.S. adults with Asian/Pacific Islander ancestry who have diabetes and normal kidney function differ across ethnic subgroups, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, or AA and NH/PI, communities continue to face significant racial disparities in health care access and outcomes across the United States, according to an expert.

Use of the 2021 Chronic Kidney Disease-Epidemiology Collaboration creatinine equation led to identifying a lower rate of CKD among Korean and U.S. Asian populations, a published study shows.

Among ICU patients, invasive ventilation was used less in Asian, Black and Hispanic patients vs. white patients, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Asian patients are often diagnosed with mycosis fungoides at a younger age compared with other races and therefore may have higher overall survival rates, according to a study.

In a comparison of two cohorts, the rate of stroke was higher in East Asian adults than in white adults, though atrial fibrillation influenced the stroke rate equally in both groups, researchers reported at Heart Rhythm 2023.

Black and Asian women with early-stage, hormone-receptor positive, HER2-negative, node-negative breast cancer appeared about twice as likely as their white counterparts to experience locoregional recurrence.