Cambodian and Hmong immigrants, for instance, experience poorer overall health outcomes than other Asian Americans.16 And while Asian Americans as an aggregated group appear to have similar rates of heart disease as whites, prevalence is much higher among Asian Indians and Filipinos and lower among Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans.17 “We end up extrapolating or generalizing that what works in one group will work for another, but that’s not always the case,” says Latha Palaniappan, an internist at Stanford School of Medicine who studies cardiovascular risk in Asian Americans.
