Sudarshan Devanesen

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a population-based study of three ethnic groups in Canada: South Asians, Chinese, and Europeans, and found that the degree of carotid atherosclerosis was associated with a higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease.

TL;DR: The FFQs generally performed well and will be used to investigate diet-disease relations in SHARE and may be improved with more direct questions on the FFQ regarding brand, type, and amount of oil consumed in stirfry servings.

TL;DR: Although there are differences in conventional and novel risk factors between ethnic groups, this variation and the degree of atherosclerosis only partly explains the higher rates of cardiovascular disease among South Asians compared with Europeans and Chinese.

TL;DR: The combination of lower serum folate and the MTHFR 677T/T genotype is associated with increased plasma homocysteine among South Asians and Europeans, but the association is not evident among Chinese possibly because their serum folates may not have been low enough to compromise MTH FR activity.

TL;DR: The relationship between the conventional and emerging risk factors, and atherosclerosis, vascular disease and markers of end-organ damage will be evaluated between and within ethnic groups.