Findings on health screening of immigrant Southeast Asian adolescents enrolled at a Federally funded vocational training facility were reviewed for the years 1979-1982. History of or positive skin test for tuberculosis was found in 55%. A heavy parasite burden was found in 46% of the recent Laotian immigrants, but was infrequent in Vietnamese who had been in the United States for several months before testing. Anemia was found in only 5.5%, though an additional 6.5% had findings suggestive of Thalasemia trait. Hepatitis B surface antigen positivity occurred in 16.8% but none had abnormal liver enzymes. One case of leprosy and three cases of idiopathic microscopic hematuria were detected.
BT - Journal of adolescent health care : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6643205?dopt=Abstract DA - 1983 Dec DO - 10.1016/s0197-0070(83)80009-6 IS - 4 J2 - J Adolesc Health Care LA - eng N2 -Findings on health screening of immigrant Southeast Asian adolescents enrolled at a Federally funded vocational training facility were reviewed for the years 1979-1982. History of or positive skin test for tuberculosis was found in 55%. A heavy parasite burden was found in 46% of the recent Laotian immigrants, but was infrequent in Vietnamese who had been in the United States for several months before testing. Anemia was found in only 5.5%, though an additional 6.5% had findings suggestive of Thalasemia trait. Hepatitis B surface antigen positivity occurred in 16.8% but none had abnormal liver enzymes. One case of leprosy and three cases of idiopathic microscopic hematuria were detected.
PY - 1983 SP - 266 EP - 9 T2 - Journal of adolescent health care : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine TI - Prevalence of disease in Southeast Asian teenagers. Results of screening medical examination at a residential vocational training facility. VL - 4 SN - 0197-0070 ER -