A potential link between intestinal bacteria and the disproportionately higher rates of certain chronic disease and mental health risks among Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders ( NHPIs ) has been discovered by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The new findings were published in a series of articles in Frontiers, the world's third most-cited research publisher. Researchers from UH Mānoa's John A . Burns School of Medicine ( JABSOM ) and the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization ( UHERO ) in the College of Social Sciences have identified key differences in the numbers and types of intestinal bacteria strains in NHPIs that track with age, type 2 diabetes status, body mass index and self-esteem.

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/04/12/gut-bacteria-research-study

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