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- Inuit and non-Inuit alcohol consumption in the Baffin Region, NWT, Can...
- Stereotypes about Inuit drinking would have us believe they are much more likely to be users of alcohol compared to other segments of the population. As with many other stereotypes, however, this beli...
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Uploaded: 1999-4-20
- Inuit efforts to maintain face: elements from classroom discourse with...
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Uploaded: 1993-12-1
- Decreasing overweight and central fat patterning with Westernization a...
- OBJECTIVE: To analyse overweight, obesity and central fat patterning among the Inuit of Greenland and Inuit migrants in Denmark and their relation to Westernization. DESIGN: Cross-sectional, populatio...
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Uploaded: 2002-11-20
- Serum lipids of Greenland Inuit in relation to Inuit genetic heritage,...
- BACKGROUND: The reputed low prevalence of cardiovascular disease among the Inuit has recently been challenged. Studies have shown total cholesterol among the Inuit to differ little from that of wester...
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Uploaded: 2004-5-12
- Food insecurity among Inuit preschoolers: Nunavut Inuit Child Health S...
- BACKGROUND: Food security (i.e., a condition in which all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferenc...
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- Low occurrence of ischemic heart disease among Inuit around 1963 sugge...
- BACKGROUND: The prevalence of coronary heart disease among Greenland Inuit today is similar to that of western populations. The cardiovascular risk profile among Inuit has changed over the past four d...
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- Inuit health in Greenland: a population survey of life style and disea...
- During 1997-2001 a population survey was carried out amongst Greenland Inuit living in Denmark and West Greenland (Nuuk, Sisimiut, Qasigiannguit and four villages in Uummannaq municipality). Data coll...
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Uploaded: 2003-10-7
- Cancer in Circumpolar Inuit. Background information for cancer pattern...
- The cancer pattern among Inuit in the Circumpolar area is remarkably different from those of other populations in the world. The current paper summarizes the most important risk factors in Canadian In...
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Uploaded: 1996-1-1