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Prevalence of Selected Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among American Indians and Alaska Natives—United States, 1997
JAMA. 2000;284:36-37.
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MMWR. 2000;49:461-465
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Heart disease and stroke, the principal causes of cardiovascular disease (CVD), are the first and fifth leading causes of death among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN).1-2 Risk factors for CVD frequently cluster, which may increase CVD risk multiplicatively.3 To characterize the prevalence of risk factors for CVD (i.e., hypertension, current cigarette smoking, high cholesterol, obesity, and diabetes) among AI/AN, CDC analyzed data from the 1997 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated that 63.7% of AI/AN men and 61.4% of AI/AN women who participated in the survey had one or more CVD risk factors.
BRFSS is an ongoing state-based, random-digit-dialed telephone survey of the U.S., noninstitutionalized civilian population. Self-reported data were analyzed for the 1820 AI/AN aged greater than or equal to 18 years who participated in the 1997 BRFSS in 50 states and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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