Obesity and its related complications have become increasingly serious social problems that
threaten people's lives. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have shown an effective influence on …

Abstract Background The electronic Personal Health Record (ePHR) is a health information
system that registers health data on newly arriving migrants and was implemented in eight …

Background Body mass index (BMI) is the most frequently used adiposity measure, yet it is
unable to differentiate fat mass from lean mass. Relative fat mass (RFM) has been proposed …

There has been little agreement on the role that socioeconomic factors play in the aetiology
of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), obesity, and diabetes among migrants in the United …

Background This study was designed to analyze the relationship of waist circumference
(WC), body mass index (BMI), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), relative …

Background There is no characterization of resource use in the hospital setting for
immigrants in Colombia, we aimed to describe the resource use by Venezuelan immigrants …

Background Germany has become an important immigration country and health services
need to adopt to meet the needs of an increasingly multicultural population. For public …

Background This study aimed to investigate the gender-specific association between weight
misperception and estimated cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and gender-specific …

Purpose To evaluate whether weight misperception is associated with estimated
cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and whether gender moderates the association between …

In exploring the trans-ancestral genetic nuances of cardiovascular traits, we conducted a
multi-trait genome-wide association study focusing on African (AFR) and European (EUR) …