TABLE 2.

Ethnicity of participants in included studies (N = 787)

Ethnicity	Country of origin (n)	Immigrants (n)	Total (N)	Total (%)
Asian a	227	111	338	43
Indigenous b	118	N/A	118	15
African c	35	49	84	11
Hispanic d	0	70	70	9
African American	61	NA	61	8
Middle Eastern e	22	37	59	7
Appalachian	43	0	43	5
Polynesian f	11	N/A	11	1.4
Mixed Ancestry g	0	3	3	0.3
Total	517	270	787

^a South Asian (India, Sri Lanka [or speak Sinhala], Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Immigrant South Asian women who speak Hindi, Bengali or English), South‐eastern Asian (Malaysian, Malay, Thailand, Filipino, Indonesia), China/Chinese or Chinese speaking, Asian (no further specification).

^b Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Australian Indigenous), Algonquin (First Nations Eastern Canada), Aboriginal Canadian, Cree (Indigenous women in Northern Quebec), American Indian/Alaska Native.

^c Haitian Creole speaking, Black African (UK), African and ‘mixed ancestry women in South Africa (English speaking, Xhosa speaking, Afrikaans speaking, Shona speaking, French speaking), African (UK, Sweden, France), South African (Australia).

^d Hispanic (US), Spanish speaking (US) Peruvian (Australia).

^e Arab (UK), Middle Eastern (Sweden), Iranian, Arabic (Australia).

^f Tongan.

^g Mixed Ancestry (UK).