Mental health and substance use disorders in the multi-cultural Asian community in Singapore: an interview with Mythily Subramaniam, PhD

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¹ “Approximately 36% of East Asians (Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans) show a characteristic physiological response to drinking alcohol that includes facial flushing, nausea, and tachycardia (Eng et al., 2007). This so-called alcohol flushing response (also known as ‘Asian flush’ or ‘Asian glow’) is predominantly due to an inherited deficiency in the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (ALDH2) (Harada et al., 1981).