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Adipokines and Cardiometabolic Risk in South Asian Americans: Findings from the MASALA Study. ↗

In 891 MASALA participants, adiponectin was associated with lower odds of dyslipidemia overall and diabetes in women. Leptin and the adiponectin-to-leptin ratio did not show significant associations.

Keep in mind: The results are descriptive and sex-specific. They do not establish causation or a clinical treatment threshold for adipokines.

Association of Parity With ASCVD Risk Factors Among South Asian Women: The MASALA Study. ↗

Among South Asian women in MASALA, two or more live births were associated with greater increases in blood pressure and LDL cholesterol over follow-up. Incident coronary calcium was not significantly associated with parity.

Keep in mind: The sample was relatively small and residual confounding remains possible. The findings do not establish that pregnancy caused these changes.

Associations of the PREVENT Score with coronary artery and thoracic aortic calcification among South Asian Americans. ↗

A 2026 analysis compared PREVENT risk estimates with coronary and thoracic aortic calcium in 960 MASALA participants. Associations differed by sex, with particular interest in aortic calcium among women.

Keep in mind: The study did not validate prediction of future clinical events; the authors call for further outcome studies.

Insulin Hypersecretion and Increased Ectopic Fat in South Asian American Adolescents and Young Adults Compared With White and African American Peers: The CHARISMA Study. ↗

The 2026 CHARISMA study found more visceral and liver fat and higher total and static insulin secretion in South Asian adolescents and young adults with elevated BMI compared with peers.

Keep in mind: This selected age and BMI group does not represent all South Asians. Higher secretion at this stage is not proof of inevitable future beta-cell failure.

Prevalence and Trends in Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Middle-Aged South Asian Adults Compared With Other Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States: A Longitudinal Analysis of 2 Cohort Studies. ↗

A 2026 MASALA–MESA analysis found differences in cardiovascular risk-factor burden already at age 45. By age 55, South Asian adults had the highest estimated hazard probability of diabetes among the groups compared.

Keep in mind: These are group-level patterns from US cohorts, not an individual risk calculator or evidence of uniquely South Asian biology.

Age at type 2 diabetes diagnosis, mortality, and health loss in South Asians. ↗

Angiographic Characteristics and Associated Risk Factors of Premature Coronary Artery Disease among South Asians: A Systematic Review. ↗

Associations of Pre-Pandemic CKD With Acute and Post-Acute COVID-19: The C4R Study. ↗

Development and Evaluation of a Planetary Health Diet Index: The Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America Study. ↗

Do Mind-Body Practices Moderate the Link Between Childhood Abuse and Spiritual Struggle? Results from the Study on Stress, Spirituality and Health. ↗

Everyday Discrimination and Its Predictors in the MASALA Study. ↗

Spatial and neighborhood data in the collaborative cohort of cohorts for COVID-19 Research (C4R). ↗

Compound LDLR Mutations with Attenuated FH Phenotype →

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Recurrent In-Stent Thrombosis Despite Optimal DAPT →

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Porcelain Left Atrium with Giant Calcified Thrombus in Long-Standing Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis →

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GCA in AION — North-Central Indian Case Series (SGPGI Lucknow 2026) →

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Pediatric Autoimmune Pancarditis Complicating Congenital Heart Disease, Kerala →

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Amphotericin B-Resistant Cryptococcus laurentii Meningitis with Concurrent Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a 17-Year-Old Nepali Male on Cyclophosphamide for MPO-ANCA Crescentic Glomerulonephritis — Kathmandu →

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Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Infective Endocarditis After Coronary Stenting in Dhaka — Three Patients Given Antitubercular Therapy Before Anyone Cultured Long Enough to Find the Real Organism →

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A Novel Pathogenic LDLR Nonsense Variant in a Consanguineous Indian Familial Hypercholesterolaemia Family — Every Offspring Inherited the Mutant Allele →

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