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A culturally adapted telehealth intervention led by community health workers (CHWs) improved blood pressure control among South Asian immigrants with co-occurring type 2 diabetes by 33.7% compared to 16.5% in a control group.

CHWs are community members who share the same race, ethnicity, language, and life experiences with the people they serve and provide culturally appropriate health education and informal guidance to improve care access.

Hundreds of postbac fellows recently filled the Natcher Conference Center for NIH’s 2024 Postbac Poster Day. Among them were 11 NIMHD early-career researchers already advancing understanding of minority health and health disparities research.

NIMHD’s Conversations with Researchers Engaging With Communities

May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. As we celebrate the significant contributions to America—from its history through present day and beyond—by people who represent AANHPI communities, we’re recognizing researchers who are promoting health equity through their community-engaged research.

NIMHD’s Conversations with Researchers Engaging With Communities

May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. As we celebrate the significant contributions to America—from its history through present day and beyond—by people who represent AANHPI communities, we’re recognizing researchers who are addressing health disparities through their community-engaged research.

In this NIMHD study, focused on Chinese and Korean American populations experiencing sleep disturbances, researchers found an association between:

• Complex multimorbidity
• The coexistence of three or more chronic diseases in an individual
• Sleep apnea risk

The study is the first known to examine the associations between sleep measures and complex multimorbidity and to analyze these relations among Asian Americans.