Arabs - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Arab American immigrants in New York: health care and cancer knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs.

29 Sep 2008 Arab immigrants living in the United States total between 1.5 million and 3.5 million, and have been growing in number each decade. New York's Arab population, at 405,000, ranks third in the U.S. after California and Michigan. Despite the large ... Read more...

Disparities in self-reported diabetes mellitus among Arab, Chaldean, and black Americans in Southeast Michigan.

29 Sep 2008 Diabetes mellitus is an important public health problem that disproportionately affects minorities. Using a cross sectional, convenience sample, we estimated the prevalence of self-reported diabetes for Whites (n = 212), Arabs (n = 1,303), ... Read more...

Development and psychometric evaluation of an Arab version of the Family Peer Relationship Questionnaire.

29 Sep 2008 Little is known about parent and peer relationships in immigrant adolescents due to a dearth of culturally sensitive measures. We adapted the Family Peer Relationship Questionnaire (FPRQ) for Arab immigrant mothers and their adolescents. Mothers ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Arabs'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Arab American immigrants in New York: health care and cancer knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs. 29 Sep 2008
• Disparities in self-reported diabetes mellitus among Arab, Chaldean, and black Americans in Southeast Michigan. 29 Sep 2008
• Development and psychometric evaluation of an Arab version of the Family Peer Relationship Questionnaire. 29 Sep 2008
• Congenital associated malformations in a sample of Jordanian patients with cleft lip and palate. 29 Sep 2008
• Building the infrastructure, modeling the nation: the case of birth in Palestine. 30 Aug 2008
• Molecular analysis of MEFV gene mutations among Palestinian patients with Behcet's disease. 30 Aug 2008
• Eating disorders and disordered eating in Israel: an updated review. 30 Aug 2008
• The association between antibiotic use in the community and nasopharyngeal carriage of antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Bedouin children. 30 Aug 2008
• The ancestry of LRRK2 Gly2019Ser parkinsonism. 30 Aug 2008
• Validation of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaires for Arabic-speaking Populations. 30 Aug 2008
• Psychiatrists strive to help children heal mental wounds from war and disasters. 11 Aug 2008
• Assessing psychological stress among Arab migrant women in the City of Cologne/Germany using the Community Oriented Primary Care (COPC) approach. 30 Jul 2008
• Evaluation of the diagnostic reliability of different RBC indices and formulas in the differentiation of the beta-thalassaemia minor from iron deficiency in Palestinian population. 30 Jul 2008
• Increasing lung cancer incidence among Israeli Arab men reflects a change in the earlier paradox of low incidence and high smoking prevalence. 30 Jul 2008
• Dental trauma among 5th and 6th grade Arab schoolchildren in Eastern Jerusalem. 30 Jul 2008
• Gaucher disease in Arab patients at an Israeli referral clinic. 30 Jul 2008
• Weak or no association of TCF7L2 variants with Type 2 diabetes risk in an Arab population. 24 Jul 2008
• Religious leaders key in the Middle East's HIV/AIDS fight. 24 Jul 2008
• CNGA3 mutations in two United Arab Emirates families with achromatopsia. 8 Jul 2008
• Polymorphisms of selected xenobiotic genes contribute to the development of papillary thyroid cancer susceptibility in Middle Eastern population. 3 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Arabs'

Definition: Members of a Semitic people inhabiting the Arabian peninsula or other countries of the Middle East and North Africa. The term may be used with reference to ancient, medieval, or modern ethnic or cultural groups. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D018912

Alternative terms: Arabs; Arab; Palestinians; Palestinian; Bedouins; Bedouin;

Related Mesh Headings: Islam;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; ethnology; genetics;

Tree Number: M01.686.754.167;

History Note: 96

Technical Notes: specify geog if relevant