The health of Arab-Americans living in the United States: a systematic review of the literature

El-Sayed, Abdulrahman M.; Galea, Sandro

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-272

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“…This implicates the increasing effect of local environmental risk factors in the new country on disease causation or availability of diagnostic tools. Related to this, the migration of AAs to USA occurred in three waves, the first being at the turn of the last century and the second after World War II, and the third in 1965 with a substantial increase in the 1990s [4, 7, 12]. Descendants of earlier immigrants have prostate cancer incidence patterns similar to CAs while more recent first generation immigrants have patterns similar to native Arabs [7].…”

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“…Out of all ethnic minorities resident in the U.S., Arab-Americans (AAs) have been residents of the U.S. for more than a century but are not typically reported in the U.S. census as minorities since they are usually included as Whites [4]. Michigan has one of the largest concentrations of AAs in the U.S. [4].…”

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“…Michigan has one of the largest concentrations of AAs in the U.S. [4]. The limited publications on the number of AAs in Michigan estimate a population size of 191,607 individuals [5].…”

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Clinical Profile, Quality of Care, and Recurrence in Arab-American and Caucasians Prostate Cancer Patients in Michigan

Moussawi

Yassine

Dey

et al. 2012

J Immigrant Minority Health

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Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the United States with striking differences in incidence and mortality among ethnic groups. Michigan has one of the largest concentrations of Arab Americans (AAs) in the U.S. and little is known about this ethnic minority with respect to prostate cancer. This study investigated differences in clinical profile, quality of care, and recurrence among prostate cancer survivors comparing AAs and Caucasian Americans (CAs). Participants in this study included 2499 prostate cancer survivors from the Michigan Cancer Registry from 1985 to 2004. Participants completed surveys regarding health-seeking behavior, post-treatment symptoms, quality of care and recurrence. Ethnicity was self-reported and AAs and CAs were compared with respect to clinical profile, quality of care, and recurrence. There were 52 AAs and 1886 CAs patients with AAs being younger (x̄ age 68.3 ± SD 21.4 years, x̄ age 72.3 ± SD 14.1 years, for AAs and CAs, respectively) (P = 0.05). AAs had lower socioeconomic standard than CAs (34 vs. 10.6 %, <$20,000 yearly income/year; for AAs vs. CAs, respectively) (P < 0.0001). AAs reported poorer health than AAs (7.7 vs. 3.0 % for AAs vs. CAs, respectively) (P < 0.0001). AAs were more likely to visit specialists for prostate follow-up (44.5 vs. 19.7 % visited a specialist, for AAs vs. CAs respectively) (P < 0.0001) and received supplementary healthcare workers (13 % of AAs vs. 3.1 % CAs) (P = 0.032). In addition, AAs reported higher occurrence of urinary incontinence compared to CAs (67.4 vs. 60.4 %, for AAs vs. CAs, respectively) (P = 0.001). Ethnic background was not a predictor of recurrence [(Odds ratio (OR) = 1.1 (95 % confidence intervals CI = 0.40, 2.9)] (P = 0.873) even after adjusting for age, PSA levels within the last 2 years, metastasis and hormonal therapy. While AAs prostate cancer patients were different from CAs in age, income, seeking medical care, and health reporting, ethnic background was not a predictor of recurrence. Future studies of the impact of socioeconomic, demographic and cultural factors, and health care seeking behavior on long-term survival of prostate cancer in AAs and other ethnic minorities are warranted.

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Clinical Profile, Quality of Care, and Recurrence in Arab-American and Caucasians Prostate Cancer Patients in Michigan

Moussawi

Yassine

Dey

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J Immigrant Minority Health

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“…in males and low HDL in females were associated with low 25-OH-D level [16]. Further, obesity and smoking were present more than in the general US population [17].…”

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Cardio Metabolic Syndrome: A Global Epidemic

Kelli¹,

Kassas²,

Lattouf

2016

J Diabetes Metab

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Cardio Metabolic Syndrome (CMS), also known as insulin resistance syndrome or metabolic syndrome X, is a combination of metabolic disorders or risk factors that essentially includes a combination of diabetes mellitus, systemic arterial hypertension, central obesity and hyper-lipidemia. Common to these diseases of metabolism is the associated development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Studies have shown a strong link between CMS and increased prevalence of peripheral vascular diseases, coronary artery disease and myocardial infarctions as well as cerebro-vascular arterial diseases and stroke.

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“…As a result, it is not surprising that among 214 Middle Eastern-American university students 29.3% of females vs. 43.9% of males averaged ≥10,000 steps/day over 1 week [12]. Such disparity is concerning because physical inactivity is associated with various lifestyle diseases (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, overweight) whose prevalence among Arab Americans -one-quarter of whom are Muslim [13] -have been observed to be as great or greater than non-Arabs [14].…”

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Formative Evaluation of a Pilot Study of a University Exercise Class for Female Muslims

Kahan¹,

Amini²,

Osman³

2018

JPAR

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Young adult Muslim women in western societies encounter barriers to exercise participation due in part to a lack of gyms offering women-only classes. Among university students, exercise might be further compromised by competing demands on time due to academics/work. We piloted a women-only exercise program (Sisters Exercising Together) for Muslims at one university in the southwest United States during the 2016-2017 academic year. We used attendance rosters (n = 6 participants), and focus group interview (n = 3) and informal interview (n = 47) techniques to assess the feasibility of and satisfaction with the program and to determine reasons for (low) attendance. Although conceptually well-received, intrapersonal factors related to perception of time, personal preferences, and motivation were most responsible for non-attendance. Potential courses of action for improving attendance should focus on improving self-regulation skills and enhancing social support.

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The health of Arab-Americans living in the United States: a systematic review of the literature

Cited by 102 publications

References 66 publications

Clinical Profile, Quality of Care, and Recurrence in Arab-American and Caucasians Prostate Cancer Patients in Michigan

Clinical Profile, Quality of Care, and Recurrence in Arab-American and Caucasians Prostate Cancer Patients in Michigan

Cardio Metabolic Syndrome: A Global Epidemic

Formative Evaluation of a Pilot Study of a University Exercise Class for Female Muslims

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