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Premature mortality patterns among American Indians in North Dakota, 2010–2019 (pre-pandemic) [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundAccording to the National Center for Health Data, in 2017 American Indians in North Dakota experience the highest age-adjusted mortality rate in the United States.
Melanie Nadeau +6 more
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Longitudinal lipidomic profiles of left ventricular mass and left ventricular hypertrophy in American Indians [PDF]
JCI InsightBACKGROUND Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and dyslipidemia are strong, independent predictors for cardiovascular disease, but their relationship is less well studied.
Mingjing Chen +13 more
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Cognitive reserve is associated with education, social determinants, and cognitive outcomes among older American Indians in the Strong Heart Study [PDF]
Communications PsychologyCognitive reserve, a component of resilience, may be conceptualized as the ability to overcome accumulating neuropathology and maintain healthy aging and function. However, research measuring and evaluating it in American Indians is needed.
Astrid M. Suchy-Dicey +4 more
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The Interrelation between the Threatening Violence of Dams Construction and the Atrocities of Indigenous Women and Nature: an Ecofeminist Reading of American Indian and Nubian Literature [PDF]
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022 American Indians and Nubians are entirely different cultures with different backgrounds both spatially and timely. Yet, these two indigenous cultures, that apparently had no contact with each other, experienced similar conditions of exile as a result of ...
Samar Maatouq
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Immigrant Indians’ identity in second-generation Asian American context: interpretation of ethnicity, gender and religion [PDF]
Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences, 2023 Purpose – This paper aims to interpret the multidimensional Asian American identity of immigrant Indians in terms of pan-ethnicity, gender and religion.
Saheeh Shafi
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Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 BackgroundColorectal cancer (CRC) incidence rates have increased in younger individuals worldwide. We examined the most recent early- and late-onset CRC rates for the US.MethodsAge-standardized incidence rates (ASIR, per 100,000) of CRC were calculated ...
Jessica L. Petrick +7 more
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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022 The Indian Health Service (IHS) is but the latest effort to honor the constitutional and treaty commitment made to deliver health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States.
Vishal Khetpal +2 more
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Critical Literary Studies, 2023 This article unravels the concept of eco-trauma in American Indians’ lifestyle in Gardens in the Dunes (2000), a novel portraying eco-concerns of Leslie Marmon Silko (1948).
Shokofeh Zorriyeh Habib +1 more
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Notes on Contemporary Indian Identity
RSA Journal, 2009 This essay offers a survey of Native American positions in the American patchwork. Taking as a starting point contemporary American politics and the possibility of multiracial identification in the U.S.
Fedora Giordano
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Journal of Lipid Research, 1979 The prevalence of ischemic heart disease is significantly lower in southwestern American Indians than in Caucasians. To investigate this difference, the metabolism of low density lipoprotein apoprotein (apo-LDL) and plasma lipoprotein cholesterol ...
M B Garnick, P H Bennett, T Langer
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