Cardiometabolic Disease Among Asian People: Prevalence, Prediction, and Precision Medicine

Adrian Matias Bacong, PhD, MPH, talks about the epidemiology and burden of cardiometabolic disease among Asian groups, and specific clinical, behavioral, demographic, and socioeconomic factors that contribute to differential cardiometabolic risk. He discusses new developments to predict cardiometabolic risk of different Asian groups. 0:00 Intro 3:37 My Journey 6:30 Overview 7:29 Cardiometabolic Disease Prevalence Nationally 19:08 Cardiometabolic Disparities Among Single and Multiracial Asian and Pacific Islander People 27:52 Explaining the Variance in Cardiovascular Health and Mortality Among Asian Americans and Other Race Groups 32:14 Expanding Explained Variance: All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality 36:14 Predicting Cardiometabolic Disease Among Asian People: Pathways Moving Forward 41:25 Final Takeaways 42:35 Our Call to Action 44:08 Q&A The librarians at Stanford Health Library are eager to help you find trustworthy information to answer your health-related questions. Services are free and open to all. Ask a librarian: https://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/research-services.html Take 5 minutes for yourself. Check out the free mindfulness and meditation resources from Stanford Health Library: https://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/books-resources/mindfulness-meditation.html Presenter: Adrian Matias Bacong, PhD, MPH is a postdoctoral research scholar with the Stanford University School of Medicine - Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Center for Asian Health Research and Education (CARE), where he serves as the Association Program Director for the Stanford CARE Team Science Fellowship. Dr. Bacong is also a current T32 Postdoctoral Scholar in the Division of Epidemiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and is a postdoctoral affiliate of the Center for Innovation in Global Health.