Toronto Institute Clinical Evaluative Sciences Sunnybrook Schulich Heart Centre and Immigrant Groups

immigrant groups: And the longer immigrants spend in Canada, the more their heart health declines, according to Globe and Mail. This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone The Globe and Mail Video Video: Nutrition Basics: Now is the time to lower your cholesterol and here how to do it The study is notable because of how it was conducted: as a big data experiment. But the paper, published Monday in the journal Circulation, also found stark variations in the cardiovascular health of immigrant groups, with those born in South Asia faring the worst. Researchers from Toronto Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Sunnybrook Schulich Heart Centre used data from Citizenship and Immigration Canada Permanent Resident database and linked it to nine population-health databases to analyze risk factors and cardiovascular events – such as heart attack and stroke – of more than 800,000 first-generation immigrants to Ontario. Overall, the immigrant groups were less likely to smoke, be obese, have high blood pressure, suffer from diabetes or have high cholesterol than long-term Canadian residents. The researchers compared the information to more than five million long-term residents of the province, the vast majority of whom were white. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.