Context: Controversy persists about optimal body weight. Many experts define
“normal”(healthy) body mass index (BMI) as 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2, 25 to 29.9 kg/m2 as …

Background Asian‐American subgroups (Asian‐Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Korean,
Japanese, and Vietnamese) display varied cardiovascular disease mortality patterns …

Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among all racial and
ethnic populations in the USA. Cardiovascular risks and cardioprotective factors have been …

Asian Americans are understudied in health research and often aggregated into one
homogenous group, thereby disguising disparities across subgroups. Cambodian …

Context The body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) as diagnostic tools of
obesity do not reflect the same level of fat mass and whether obesity leads to various effects …

Introduction Although cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of morbidity and
mortality of Filipino–Americans, conventional CVD risk calculators may not be accurate for …

Nursing research examines a wide variety of phenomena, requiring an extensive array of
measurement methods. However, nurse researchers have sometimes found limited …

Inclusion practices for students with moderate to severe disabilities (SWDs) have been at the
forefront of educational reform since the “Least Restrictive Environment” was coined in 1975 …

Objectives This cross-sectional study evaluates the degree of agreement between the 2018
American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA2018) and 2020 …

Background: A limited number of studies on cardiovascular health on Asian Americans have
consistently highlighted the disproportionately high prevalence of hypertension among …