Medical Student Research Forum Posters

• There is increasing evidence of how physical activity (PA) can potentially play a role in healthy aging, decreased mortality, and lower lifestyle disease such as Type 2 Diabetes (T2D)

• Asian Americans have continued to be the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States2 and there are significant lower rates of PA in the Asian American population than in other ethnic groups

• This can possibly be attributed to the different levels of acculturation to Western cultures as it has been seen that a higher identification with American Society can be associated with more recreation-related PA

• Most studies on acculturation and physical activity has focused on the Asian American population without subgroups even though it has been shown that there is heterogeneity among the subgroups