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Social factors may affect heart health of Asian ethnicities in the US differently

September 16, 2024 By AAARI

Numerous factors – including immigration status, socioeconomic status and access to health care – contribute to differences in heart disease and stroke risks for Asian American people and may affect the many subgroups in this population differently, according to a new science report.

Illiterate Heart and Raw Silk

October 1, 2018June 11, 2004 By John Yau and Meena Alexander

“Raw Silk,” is a deeply moving collection from a poet who crosses borders New York City poet Meena Alexander was born in Allahabad , India and divided her childhood between India and the Sudan . From her cross-cultural perspective Alexander writes with moving intensity of post-September 11 events as she evokes violence and civil strife, … Read more