I do love that the acronym is MASALA.
Genetic quirk is the only thing I can think of. But which gene marker specifically is glitching out here? I barely know anything about genetics, but I do remember that some genetic anomalies tied to heart formation in early fetal development also lead to throat and stomach problems too. Do those correspond, or is this isolated?
I heard environmental factors also are a factor for heart diseases - namely, air pollution.
Globally, people of South Asian descent represent 60% of heart disease patients, despite making up just 25% of the population
Note the word globally.
People of South Asian descent don’t all live in the same place with the same climate. So that’s not the reason.
Statistically significant portion might be in just a handful of similar cities. There are big cities in sa.
My point is, the diaspora is spread enough that you can rule out climate and air quality by comparing cohorts within the same climate and same air quality. Most cities in Europe don’t have terrible air quality for example. Your suggestion that big Asian cities have more relevance in the result goes against how you actually do statistics.
it is bcoz they r locate in s. asian
i hope this help
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The answer is usually ultra processed foods.
South East Asian diets don’t have a lot of processed foods. In fact they’re recommended by doctors to fight heart disease and weight issues.
South Asia isn’t Southeast Asia.
Take out East and it’s much the same
Pretty sure that’s traditional Asian cuisine, not the industrial garbage that has taken hold over there too.
Maybe its the stress of Asian parents pressuring their kids to perform instead of the food…?
Haha yeah maybe.
That’s easy on the food side of things: Seed oils and GMOs are the biggest cause of this sort of thing. I’d imagine South Asians consume food with those.
This seems like valuable information. You should tell the scientists!
Pretty sure scientists are baffled for a reason. This isn’t it because this certainly would have been factored.
Their diets are recommended for good nutrition.
Coconut oil. “Seed oils and GMOs are bad” is just a stupid conspiracy theory.
If you can’t cold press oil out of something, it’s a seed oil if you hot press it, in a sense.
Coconut oil isn’t a seed oil, as it’s cold pressed. Oils like soybean oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil, etc. are nothing more than hot, chemical-extracted oils that cause a lot of health issues.
However, cold pressing what could be a seed oil is a lecithin (sunflower lecithin, soy lecithin, those that can be hot, chemical-extracted oils).
Source? You’ve just made a bunch of claim with nothing to back that up. No I won’t Google since you made the claim, so burden of proof is on you.
When you do real schience, instead of throwing opinions on the Internet, you actually account for these things.
https://www.masalastudy.org/publications
Doesn’t look like they’ve done anything about seed oils or GMO, but there are a lot of papers there and I read one then only scanned through the titles, so they well may have. They appear to be all cohort (aka epidemiological) studies so it’s very hard to control for factors like seed oils, which are in almost all food-like products now. Same with other ultraprocessed foods, and things like Glyphosate or Atrazine exposure.
And you’ve got evidence to back up this claim? Not only that those things do what you sya they do, but that these people consume more of them than others?
Oh holy shit this random dude on the internet figured it out. All those scientists who did all that research never thought to account for diet I’m sure. Who would have thunk?
