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By Suchi Rudra It’s a fairly troubling practice—but it’s been going on for years. Due to the lack of a solid database on Asian Americans, data taken from Asian people living in Asia have long been used in studies and surveys regarding Asian Americans. For example, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has only begun to use Asian American data …

By Jenny Chen November was diabetes awareness month and recent study by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) shows that Asian Americans may be more at risk for diabetes than is popularly believed. According to the Asian American Diabetes Initiative at the Joslin Diabetes Center, despite having a lower body weight, Asian Americans are more likely than Caucasians to have …