Commentary: Type 2 diabetes epidemic in first nations people of Canada

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 300-303

  Ayach, Bilal B ^a   Korda, Holly ^b  

^a ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^b Altarum Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboriginal health; Canada; First nations; Inuit; Population health; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ABORIGINE; CANADA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNICITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; PREVALENCE; RACE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; RISK FACTOR;

AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CANADA; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78049428672     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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