Status of cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Nunavik

Status of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes in Nunavik BACKGROUND OF THE NUNAVIK INUIT HEALTH health indicators, physical measurements, and social, SURVEY environmental and living conditions, thus permitting a thorough update of the health and well-being profile of The monitoring of population health and its determinants the Inuit population of Nunavik. [...] According to the 2001 Canadian census, the The extensive survey conducted by Santé Québec in fourteen communities of Nunavik have a total of 9632 Nunavik in 1992 provided information on the health inhabitants, 91% of whom identified themselves as Inuit. [...] The target population of the survey was permanent The survey showed that health patterns of the population residents of Nunavik, excluding residents of collective were in transition and reflected important lifestyle dwellings and households in which there were no Inuit changes. [...] A sedentary lifestyle, the Guard Ship Amundsen, thanks to a grant obtained from switch to a cash-based domestic economy, the the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the modernization of living conditions and the increasing Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada (ArcticNet). [...] Status of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes in Nunavik As mentioned earlier, the causes of the increase in DIABETES diabetes and its related risk factors such as obesity are probably related to the epidemiologic transition that is.