When Dr. Jeffrey Velotta, Clinical Professor of Clinical Science at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine (KPSOM), returned to the Bay Area in 2014 after years of thoracic surgery training in Boston, New York, and Los Angeles, he thought he understood the landscape of lung cancer.
Study: Prediabetes twice as common in AAPI teens with obesity
Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) adolescents with overweight or obesity are more than twice as likely to have prediabetes compared to their white peers, according to new research from Kaiser Permanente.
Study: More heart health research needed on Asian subgroups
A new Kaiser Permanente study presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention meeting this week underscores the significant differences in cardiovascular risk factors across Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander populations.
Women with diabetes at increased risk for irregular heart rhythm
Diabetes increases the risk of women developing atrial fibrillation (AF) by 26 percent. Atrial fibrillation is a potentially dangerous irregular heart rhythm that can lead to stroke, heart failure, and chronic fatigue. These are the findings of a new Kaiser Permanente study, published in the October issue of Diabetes Care, a journal of the American Diabetes Association.