Korean Americans

Matsuda, K.T. et al. (1996). Clozapine dosage, serum levels, efficacy, and side-effect profiles a comparison of Korean-American and Caucasian patients. Psychopharmacol. Bull, 32, 253-7. 

A recent study of the atypical antipsychotic clozapine in Asians (Matsuda et al. 1996) found that Korean American patients showed a greater improvement than whites while receiving lower mean doses of clozapine. Korean Americans had lower mean clozapine concentrations than did Caucasians, yet they were more likely to experience anticholinergic and other side effects. No cases of agranulocytosis were reported in Korean American patients, and the incidence in Asians is not known. Clozapine is metabolized by CYP1A2, which is highly inducible, so such differences may be due to differences in diet and other personal habits. 

Cho, Sumi. 1993. Korean Americans vs. African Americans Conflict and Construction. In Robert Gooding-Williams (ed.), Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising. New York Routledge. 

Dr. Jun is a Vice President of Korean-American Biomedical Engineering Society (KBMES). 

We recently sought to determine if the sex difference in odor identification ability observed in American Blacks and Whites (Doty et al., 1984a, b Figure 1) was also present in American Koreans and Native Japanese subjects. In this research, the University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (a 40-item standardized forced-choice test with microencapsulated odors) was administered to 438 Black Americans, 1559 White Americans, 106 Korean Americans, and 308 Native Japanese. The Black and White Americans were comprised mainly of university employees and students, participants in regional health fairs, primary and secondary school students, and youngsters enrolled at summer camps and day care centers. The Korean Americans were part of a Sunday school population at a local Korean church, whereas the Japanese subjects were members of the staff and faculty of a hospital in a medium-sized Japanese metropolitan city (Kawasaki-shi). 

In addition to the presence of a consistent sex difference in test scores within each of the four study groups, a significant difference was observed among the groups in terms of the absolute test scores. On the average, the Korean Americans outperformed the Black and White Americans who, in turn, outperformed the Native Japanese (Table 1). All of these means differed significantly from one another, with the exception of the Black and White American ones, which did not differ (Tukey B multiple-comparison post hoc analysis ps < 0.01). Although the reason(s) for these ethnic/cultural differences are not known, differential familiarity with the items is a likely factor, since several of the odors which were not easily identified by the Japanese subjects were unfamiliar to a number of... 

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Song, K.B., Atkinson, C., Frankenfeld, C.L., Jokela, T., Wahala, K., Thomas, W.K., and Lampe, J.W. 2006. Prevalenee of Daidzein-Metabolizing Phenotypes Differs between Caucasian and Korean American Women and Girls. J. Nutr. 136, 1347-1351. 

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Abbreviations for race, W, White or Caucasian C, Chinese AA, African American K, Korean E, Ethiopian J, Japanese Af, African A, Asian AI, American Indian Egp, Egyptian As, Asian or oriental IPD, insufficient population data collected from population study. 

Ginseng may be derived from any of several species of the genus Panax. Of these, crude preparations or extracts of Panax ginseng, the Chinese or Korean variety, and P quinquefolium, the American variety, are most often available to consumers in the United States. The active principles appear to be the triterpenoid saponin glycosides called ginsenosides or panaxosides, of which there are approximately 30 different types. It is recommended that commercial P ginseng formulations be standardized to contain 4-7% ginsenosides. 

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In June 1950, with the onset of the Korean War, the American Chemical Corps participated in its first military action since 1918. The Corps quickly implemented an increased procurement programme to supply the army with a chemical capability and defensive equipment. The new chief of the corps concluded that the need for such an ability was the number one lesson learned from the Second World War It required the experiences of World War II to demonstrate that the most important basic factor in a nation s military strength is its war production potential and ability to convert smoothly and quickly its industry, manpower and other economic resources. 27 Within a short time, however, the army s... 

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