Cardiovascular burden and related risk factors among Nunavik (Quebec) Inuit: Insights from baseline findings in the circumpolar Inuit Health in Transition cohort study

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Chateau Degat, Marie Ludivine ^a,b   Dewailly, Éric ^b   Louchini, Rabia ^b   Counil, Émilie ^b   Noël, Martin ^b   Ferland, Annie ^b   Lucas, Michel ^b   Valera, Béatriz ^b   Ékoé, Jean Marie ^c   Ladouceur, Robert ^d   Dery S ^d   Egeland, Grace M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d Direction Régionale de Santé Publique du Nunavik   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Health outcomes; Hypertension; Ischemia; Morbidity; Myocardial infarction; Obesity; Prevalence; Risk factors; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; ESKIMO; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL ISCHEMIA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

EID: 77953433934     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0828-282X(10)70398-6     Document Type: Article

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