Diabetes

Study shows First Nations children entering residential school had normal body mass index and height and weight for age, providing evidence that the nutritional state in First Nation communities was reasonable at that time.

Pharmacology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Montreal, 2010.

Discusses the infection which is common among women with diabetes, and specifically looks at women of Aboriginal ethnic origin.

Pharmacy Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Montreal, 2012.

Study findings indicate that the majority of the plants selected had properties to support the historically low incidence of diabetes.

Plant Science Thesis (Ph.D.)-- McGill University, 1999.

Comments on the health disparities faced by Aboriginal Peoples' and the social remedies required. Appendix from A Healthy, Productive Canada: A Determinant of Health Approach by the Senate Subcommittee on Population Health chaired by Wilbert Joseph Keon and Lucie Pépin.

Examines lay and professional perspectives on causality involved with non-insulin dependent diabetes on Manitoulin Island, Ontario.

Argues that diabetes is not just a disease of the body but is a problem which needs to be understood within the context of Aboriginal history, culture, and experience.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2004.

Reviews the American Diabetes Association's current exercise recommendations.

Found that the body mass index underestimated the percent of body fat by 1.3% in Aboriginal people compared to European participants.

Community Health Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2001.

Looks at adaption of a diabetes detection tool in northern areas by studying the Inuit population.

Community Health and Epidemiology Thesis (M.Sc.)--Queen's University at Kingston, 1998.

Reports on a Australian program that was created to support the management of Indigenous people with diabetes.

Study includes 731 people, assess the assumption that dog ownership might be a protective factor in relation to Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) given reported beneficial effects on physical activity and emotional wellbeing. Research found that in the group of people around 70 years of age dog ownership did not reduce the odds of developing T2D.

Chemical and Environmental Toxicology Thesis (MSc)--University of Ottawa, 2009.

Study found that former smoking is associated with low β-cell function and current smoking with high β-cell function.

Reports the results from a study that suggests albuminuria is a strong independent predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in American Indians with diabetes.

Reports an association of variants (including two amino acid substitutions) in AFT6 with the risk of type 2 diabetes in the Pima Indians.

Looks at the association of PON1 mass with cystatin C in a sample of Aboriginal Canadians with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Briefly explains the role of the Australian Nutrition Foundation (ANF) and invites readers to join the organization.

Wampum belt being transported from community to community to raise awareness of diabetes.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.17.

Depicts the Board's challenges addressing the declining amount of contaminated, traditional food versus the increasing consumption of high caloric, processed foods.

Population Health Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2010.

Investigates 17 different publications that evaluated different forms of intervention. Community ownership was found to be essential for project success.

Focuses on challenges involved in collecting, accessing and reporting information about the population, and the work that centers do to provide communities with surveillance and interpretation of data.

Summarizes the progress of the project, focusing on the strategies and tools used to influence a positive outcome.

Examines the results of a cross-sectional study of patients with type 2 diabetes comparing screening frequencies, laboratory values and medications.

Data collected through questionnaire and sharing circles from 52 participants who had completed a six-week workshop series.

Exposes an incident where 200 people gave blood to aid research into their diabetes epidemic; the samples were also used to do research into Havasupai genes and schizophrenia, inbreeding, and the Bering Strait theory without their consent. The Havasupai people filed a lawsuit against the Arizona State University for intentional deception.

Descriptive study to determine if obesity and self-reported diabetes rise with increasing geographic accessibility to urban centres.

Contends that using standing height alone to calculate the body mass index may overestimate those who are at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease among the Inuit.

Descriptive study using comparison of interviews and questionnaires.

Relates information collected from one of the last traditionally-oriented lifestyle groups in northeast Arnhem Land.

Book reviews of 20 books: Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton. The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right by Jeffery R. Dudas. Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival by Carolyn Smith-Morris. Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music by Lynn Whidden. First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland. Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital and Social Power by Cameron B.

Review of Aboriginal Health in Canada: Historical. Cultural. and Epidemiological Perspectives by James B. Waldram, D. Ann Herring, T. Kue Young

Medical Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2005. Study of prediabetes and metabolic syndrome, findings indicate highest prevalence in North America found in Métis and First Nation communities in Alberta.

Discussion of project which involved screening all residents from a First Nations community in Northern Alberta over the age six who had not previously been diagnosed with the disease.

Briefly outlines program.

Brings attention to cultural, social and structural barriers that continue to restrict Native American's access to health care and the failure of Congress to provide necessary resources.

Outlines the organizational development of the Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR) study and the procedures used in its development.

Introductory note to issue featuring original manuscripts about the disease among Indigenous peoples in Canada.

Reports on the progress of Health Canada's Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (ADI).

Study results show a high future cancer burden in the First-Nations on-reserve population.

Assesses results of the study, which encompassed all racial/ethnic groups.

Study finds C-reactive protein (CRP) is a predictor of cardiovascular disease in 45 to 74 year old American Indians, but the predictive ability of CRP changes among subgroups with different risk factors.