The Ni Hon San Study

The Ni Hon San Study
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The Ni Hon San Study
The Ni Hon San study dates back to the migration of Japanese individuals searching for greener pastures in the USA. The name of the study is just an acronym for Nipponese In Honolulu And San Francisco. Some of these Japanese went to work in the United States, prospered and got satisfied with the life in the USA, therefore, establishing permanent homes in the country. According to Igarashi (2015), migration became so trending topic in 1950 when it was discovered that the Japanese living in Japan had the lowest rates of cardiovascular diseases as opposed to those living in the United States. Mozaffarian et al. (2015) further say that in fact, these immigrants had a two to three times higher chance of developing the disease than the natives. The purpose of this paper is to draw the conclusion and assumptions from the findings of the Ni Hon San Study.
According to Lê-Scherban et al. (2015), there are two main findings from the research. The first one is that there is a higher percentage chance of immigrant Japanese developing Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) than those living in Japan. The second one is that behavioral influences play a significant role in developing CVD than genetic features. There are genetic paths related to obesity in Japanese immigrants. Obesity, on the other hand, is a considerable factor for cardiovascular diseases. However, the study reveals the traces of evidence proving the possibility of the genetic factor substantial causing the development of the disease.

The sedentary lifestyle that the immigrants enjoy increases the risk of developing CVD. Back in Japan, the Immigrants had intense physical activities that reduced the risk by a large percentage
The other conclusion is the assimilation of culture increases the chance of CVD. According to Khan et al. (2016), change of the traditional low-fat animal fat and protein to high calories can lead to cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, the biological factors do not play a significant role as opposed to the behavioural factors.
There are few assumptions on the distinction of the Japanese in the ancestral land and the immigrants. The first one is that those left in the ancestral land continued living without changing their culture. They led a life full of intense physical activities while their counterparts assumed the culture of the new area. The other assumption of the ancestry of those living in Hawaii as opposed to those living in California is that the genetics results there was a higher chance of those living in California developing blood pressure as opposed to those living in California.
In summary, it was evident that the genetic structure and assimilation contributed to the cases of cardiovascular diseases in the immigrant. The cultural assimilation and different lifestyles in the new county increase the risk of one developing the CVD.

References
Igarashi, H. (2015). Privileged Japanese transnational families in Hawaii as lifestyle migrants. Global networks, 15(1), 99-117.
Khan, S. A., Jackson, R. T., & Momen, B. (2016). The relationship between diet quality and acculturation of immigrated south Asian American adults and their association with metabolic syndrome. PloS one, 11(6), e0156851.
Lê-Scherban, F., Albrecht, S. S., Bertoni, A., Kandula, N., Mehta, N., & Roux, A. V. D. (2016). Immigrant status and cardiovascular risk over time: results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Annals of epidemiology, 26(6), 429-435.
Mozaffarian, D., Benjamin, E. J., Go, A. S., Arnett, D. K., Blaha, M. J., Cushman, M., … & Huffman, M. D. (2015). American heart association statistics committee and stroke statistics subcommittee. Heart disease and stroke statistics–2015 update: a report from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 131(4), e29-e322.