OBJECTIVE To determine trends in diabetes prevalence among Native Americans and Alaska Natives. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS From 1990 to 1997, Native Americans and Alaska Natives with diabetes were identified from the Indian Health Service (IHS) national outpatient database, and prevalence was calculated using these cases and estimates of the Native American and Alaskan population served by I...

WITH the increase of West Indian immigration to Great Britain in recent years, cryptogenic, bilateral amblyopia has been encountered with greater frequency among West Indians in ophthalmological and neurological clinics in London. The present series comprises seventeen cases seen personally in various hospitals, mostly at Moorfields Eye Hospital (Table). Included in this series is the daughter ...

Background: Studies have shown that there are striking variations in knee morphology between Asian and Western population. However, most of the existing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) implants are designed to suit the anatomy of Western population. Our study investigated anthropometry of Indian arthritic knees and compared them to international ethnic groups. Methods: Computed tomography was use...

Cancer incidence for American Indians and Alaska Natives is typically reported as a single rate for all U.S. indigenous populations combined. Previously reported combined rates suggest that American Indians and Alaska Natives have lower cancer incidence rates compared with the U.S. population. Alaska Native people comprise three major ethnic groups: Eskimo, Indian, and Aleut people. We examined...

Maintaining wild animals in captivity often requires chemical immobilisation to achieve various diagnostic, surgical and management interventions. Four dholes, two Indian grey wolves and four Indian jackals were immobilised using ketamine-xylazine combination for either medical or management interventions. Based on the estimated body weight, canids were darted upon with 6-8 mg kg-1 ketamine and...

Using observed sea surface temperature data from 1871-1998, and observed wind data from 1958-1998, we have confirmed that the recently discovered Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is a physical entity. Many IOD events are shown to occur independently of the El Niño. By estimating the contribution from an appropriate El Niño index based on sea surface temperature anomaly in the eastern Pacific, we have ...

Warm, low salinity Pacific water weaves through the Indonesian Seas into the eastern boundary of the Indian Ocean. The Indonesian Throughflow Water (ITW) adds freshwater into the Indian Ocean as it spreads by the advection and diffusion within the Indian Ocean's South Equatorial Current (SEC). The low salinity throughflow trace, centered along 12øS, stretches across the Indian Ocean, separating...

BACKGROUND Reasons for the increase in mortality due to coronary heart disease (CHD) in UK Indian Asians are not well understood. In this study, we tested the hypotheses that elevated plasma homocysteine concentrations are a risk factor for CHD in Indian Asians, and explain part of their increased CHD risk, compared with Europeans. METHODS We undertook two parallel case-control studies, one i...

[1] Sea surface temperature (SST) for the central equatorial Indian Ocean, has been reconstructed over the last 137 kyr, from Mg/Ca of the planktonic foraminiferal species Globigerinoides ruber. According to our record the equatorial Indian Ocean SST was 2.1 C colder during the last glacial maximum as compared to present times. The data further shows that the surface equatorial Indian Ocean was...

The purpose of this study was to explore the community response of how American Indian families adapt to having school age children with disabilities in two diverse American Indian communities. An ethnographic design was utilized to construct a taxonomy about family adjustment of American Indian families with disabilities. Community Assessment interviews were conducted with 143 community member...