Study reveals alarming trend in cardiovascular health for foreign-born Asian Americans

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine have published a study in the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology that reveals an alarming cardiovascular health (CVH) trend in foreign-born Asian Americans—a startling 28% decline in CVH from 2011–2020. The findings also revealed a worsening of factors influencing CVH the longer they lived in the United States, likely due to developing poor health behaviors and dietary habits, according to the researchers.