The aim of this study was to describe these conditions in a specialized Vietnamese hospital, compared to a Danish hospital.
However, the probability of being a former smoker was generally high for Vietnamese men compared to other immigrant groups.
Previous research found better birth outcomes for East Asian-origin (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) and Vietnamese women compared to white women [ 12] but worse outcomes among Cambodian, Laotian and Filipino women relative to white [ 12], Japanese [ 14], or Chinese [ 16] women.
How do you see diasporic Vietnamese literature today, compared to twenty years ago, when we only had a few writers publishing?
There was a substantial difference between the Vietnamese samples in the proportion falling within the high PTE exposure category: 23% of the Vietnamese-immigrant group compared to 2.2% of the Mekong Delta sample (χ (1) = 496.2, p < .000).000
Nguyen et al. showed that Indonesians, when compared to Vietnamese or Chinese, shown increasing odds for developing hypertension at lower BMI.
It has been previously reported from Oslo, Norway that Sri Lankan migrants have lower HDL cholesterol and higher triglycerides compared to Vietnamese, Iranians and ethnic Norwegians[ 17].
This overall increased prevalence of T2DM is thought to be linked to greater levels of abdominal and visceral adiposity in Vietnamese individuals [ 17, 18] compared to other ethnicities.
Subjects from Turkey had the highest BMI and the highest proportion with BMI ≥ 30 kg/m, but subjects from Pakistan and Sri Lanka had the highest WHR and a substantially higher proportion with BMI ≥ 25 kg/m2 and BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2 compared to the Vietnamese.
While the negative backlash against maternal migration in the Philippines has been documented, the magnitude of the effect for the Vietnamese sample suggests that caregivers' perspective on maternal migration is an important determinant of variation in caregiver-reported child happiness, with these Vietnamese children much less happy compared to children in the comparison country, Indonesia.
