If you haven’t already read it, be sure to check out the latest issue of POZ Magazine. NE2SS elder Kent Lesbock(pictured above) is quoted in the article “Rest for the Weary“.
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by: KIM ARCHER
World Staff Writer
A researcher says the prevalence of diabetes in the population is tied to the problem.
American Indians have more strokes than white or black people in the U.S. and are more likely to die after their first stroke, a major national study led by a University of Oklahoma researcher shows.
It’s the largest epidemiologic study of cardiovascular disease in American Indians and the first to detail stroke incidence rates and risk factors for American Indians, said principal investigator Dr. Ying Zhang. Thirteen additional researchers from across the country were authors of the study, which was based at the OU College of Public Health.
The Strong Heart Study will be published next week in the American Heart Association’s journal, Circulation.
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Science Centric - 23 September 2008 14:05 GMT
American Indians have a higher incidence of stroke compared to white and black Americans and their first strokes may be more deadly, according to a study published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
The findings, from the largest longitudinal, population-based study of cardiovascular disease and risk factors in American Indians showed that the stroke incidence rate was 679 per 100,000 person years for American Indians. Previous studies in persons of similar age found the stroke incidence rate 306 per 100,000 person years for whites and 607 per 100,000 person years for blacks.
Moreover, first strokes appear to be more deadly in American Indians, said Ying Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., study lead author and assistant professor at the College of Public Health at the University of Oklahoma Sciences Centre in Oklahoma City. The death rate was 18 percent within one month of stroke and 32 percent within one year of stroke.
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Study: Cancer rate among American Indians goes undercounted
By Lisa Rosetta
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated:09/19/2008 02:30:38 PM MDT
The cancer burden of American Indians has long been underestimated, according to new research. The incidence rate - or how quickly a disease is spreading in a group - is estimated by dividing the number of new cancer cases by the population.
The numbers plugged into that formula for American Indians have not been accurate, said Charles Wiggins, director of the New Mexico Tumor Registry in Albuquerque. His work was featured in Cancer last month.
“Historically, we believe many [American Indian] cases were undercounted in central cancer registries,” he said. “This has been documented in every registry where we’ve looked.”
Article Date: 29 Aug 2008 - 3:00 PDT
In a historically unprecedented move, over 30 national HIV/AIDS organizations and leaders representing African-American, Latino, Native American/Alaska Native, and Asian & Pacific Islander communities have joined forces in an urgent call for the development and implementation of a comprehensive national AIDS strategy. The demands to the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees come in response to long-standing concerns about unmet needs for targeted HIV research, treatment access, medical care and prevention in communities of color. A recently-released report from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on estimates of new HIV infections in the United States amplifies the crises faced in communities of color.
WASHINGTON — Almost 12 percent of the deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related — more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says.
The report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found 11.7 percent of deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives between 2001 and 2005 were alcohol-related, compared with 3.3 percent for the U.S. as a whole.
Dwayne Jarman, a CDC epidemiologist who works for the Indian Health Service and is one of the study’s authors, said it is the first national survey that measures American Indian deaths due to alcohol. It should be a “call to action” for federal, state, local and tribal governments, he said.
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Author: CDC
Published on Aug 21, 2008 - 7:32:37 AM
Aug. 20, 2008 - CDC released the most comprehensive cancer data available for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) across the United States. Cancer incidence rates, especially lung and colorectal, among AI/AN men and women varied greatly across six geographic regions of the country (Alaska, East, Northern Plains, Pacific Coast, Southern Plains, and Southwest). The data was analyzed from CDC’s National Program of Cancer Registries, the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results and linkage to the Indian Health Services records. These findings, “Cancer Incidence in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Populations” were published online today and appearing in the September 1, 2008, supplement of Cancer.