Enclave etnici e sindrome metabolica negli immigrati cinesi a Filadelfia.

Ethnic enclaves, neighborhoods with high ethnic concentrations, may have a protective effect on their residents' health outcomes, but studies on their associations with cardiometabolic risk in Asian communities are inconsistent. We examined whether ethnic enclave residence was associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS) in a longitudinal sample of 516 Chinese immigrant adults in Philadelphia. Participants were recruited from three types of neighborhoods: established enclaves, emerging enclaves and non-enclave neighborhoods. At baseline (9/18 - 1/20) and follow-up (8/21 - 4/22), research staff conducted interviews and anthropometric and blood pressure measurements and collected fasting blood sa