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Hospitalized Infections in Patients With Rheumatic Disease Hospitalizations in Alaska, 2015‐2018

ACR Open Rheumatology, 2023
Objective Rheumatic diseases are associated with increased rates of hospitalized infection, but few studies have included Indigenous North American populations.
Elizabeth D. Ferucci, Peter Holck
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Disproportionately higher unintentional injury mortality among Alaska Native people, 2006–2015

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2018
We compared rates of unintentional injury (UI) deaths (total and by injury category) among Alaska Native (AN) people to rates of U.S. White (USW) and Alaska White (AKW) populations during 2006–2015.
Gretchen Day, Peter Holck, Hillary Strayer, Kathryn Koller, Timothy Thomas   +4 more
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Invasive breast cancer among Alaska Native women in Alaska

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2019
Female breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed among Alaska Native (AN) women. We examined characteristics of and trends for female breast cancer among AN women.
Sarah H Nash, Garrett Zimpelman, Barbara Stillwater, Matthew Olnes, Ellen Provost   +4 more
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Recruitment best practices of a cardiovascular risk reduction randomised control trial in rural Alaska Native communities

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2020
Though not native to Alaska, tobacco use is common among Alaska Native people in the Norton Sound region, an area consisting of 16 communities with population size 107 to 3,695. We summarise best practices in recruiting Alaska Native adults who smoke for
Mariah Knox, Jordan Skan, Neal L. Benowitz, Matthew Schnellbaecher, Judith J. Prochaska   +4 more
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Azathioprine Metabolite Measurements Are not Useful for Following Treatment of Autoimmune Hepatitis in Alaska Native and other Non-Caucasian People

Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2011
BACKGROUND: In autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) patients treated with azathioprine, the utility of measuring thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) and azathioprine metabolites has been limited.
Elizabeth D Ferucci, Kathy J Hurlburt, Marlyn J Mayo, Stephen Livingston, Heike Deubner, James Gove, Julia Plotnik, Brian J McMahon   +7 more
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Agreement between self-reported and central cancer registry-recorded prevalence of cancer in the Alaska EARTH study

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2019
Reliance on self-reported health status information as a measure of population health can be challenging due to errors associated with participant recall.
Sarah H. Nash, Gretchen Day, Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka, Garrett L. Zimpelman, Kathryn R. Koller   +4 more
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Alaska Native Elders’ perspectives on dietary patterns in rural, remote communities

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Given the increasing rates of childhood obesity in Alaska Native children and the understanding that the most effective interventions are informed by and reflect the cultural knowledge of the community in which they are implemented, this ...
Amanda K. Walch, Kathryn A. Ohle, Kathryn R. Koller, Lucinda Alexie, Flora Sapp, Timothy K. Thomas, Andrea Bersamin   +6 more
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Alaska Area Native Health Service: description of the program. [PDF]

, 1979
This publication is intended to provide information on the health status of the Alaska Native people and the related programs offered by the Alaska Area Native Health ...
Indian Health Service, Alaska Area Native Health Service, Anchorage, AK.
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Urine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3) pyridyl-1-butanol and cotinine in Alaska native postpartum women and neonates comparing smokers and smokeless tobacco users

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2018
Objective: Foetuses and neonates of women who use tobacco are exposed to nicotine and tobacco-derived carcinogens. We determined the relationship between urine biomarkers of tobacco toxicant exposure postpartum and in the neonates of Alaska Native (AN ...
Neal L. Benowitz, Christie A. Flanagan, Timothy K. Thomas, Kathryn R. Koller, Abbie W. Wolfe, Caroline C. Renner, Christine Hughes, Paul A. Decker, Dorothy K. Hatsukami, Neil J. Murphy, Christi Patten   +10 more
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Adaptation in Arctic circumpolar communities: food and water security in a changing climate [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2016
The AMAP Human Health Assessment Group has developed different adaptation strategies through a long-term collaboration with all Arctic countries. Different adaptation strategies are discussed, with examples mainly from native population groups in Alaska.
James Berner, Michael Brubaker, Boris Revitch, Eva Kreummel, Moses Tcheripanoff, Jake Bell   +5 more
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