BACKGROUND Like other indigenous peoples, the Sami have been exposed to the huge pressures of colonisation, rapid modernisation and subsequent marginalisation. Previous studies among indigenous peoples show that colonialism, rapid modernisation and marginalisation is accompanied by increased stress, an unhealthy cardiovascular risk factor profile and disease burden. Updated data on the general ...

UNLABELLED The study deals with infant mortality (IMR) that is one of the most important aspects of indigenous vulnerability. BACKGROUND The Sami are one of very few indigenous peoples with an experience of a positive mortality transition. OBJECTIVE Using unique mortality data from the period 1750-1900 Sami and the colonizers in northern Sweden are compared in order to reveal an eventual in...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between "traditional Sami" dietary pattern and mortality in a general northern Swedish population. STUDY DESIGN Population-based cohort study. METHODS We examined 77,319 subjects from the Västerbotten Intervention Program (VIP) cohort. A traditional Sami diet score was constructed by adding 1 point for intake above the median level of red meat, fatty f...

*Corresponding author: [email protected] Amr Abdel Hady Nasef Mohamed Nasef Abdelatif Hisham Abdel-Ghani Ashraf Abdelkafy Mohamed El-Sayed Abdel-Wanis Nariman Abol Oyoun Ijaz Ahmad alaa azmi ahmad Khaled Al Saleh Nuri Aydin Ufuk Aydinli Ahmed Azeem Laszlo Bucsi Jacques Caton Hitendra Doshi Ziyad El Qirem Ossama El Shazly Yasser Elbatrawy Mohammad El-Sharkawi Essam ElSherif Khaled Emara Mehme...

Sara Erol1, Banu Aydın1, Dilek Dilli1, Barış Malbora2, Serdar Beken1, Hasibe Gökçe Çınar3, Ayşegül Zenciroğlu1, nurullah Okumuş1 1Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Training and Research Hospital, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Ankara, Turkey 2Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Training and Research Hospital, Pediatric Hematology Unit, Ankara, Turkey 3Dr. Sami Ulus Maternity and Children Tra...

Calcification of Ligamentum Flavum (CLF) is an uncommon disorder. We present a 56-year-old patient with an acute inflammatory, febrile neck pain and higher value of ESR mimicking spine infection. The imaging investigations conclude for the diagnosis of calcification of the ligamentum flavum. Our observation illustrate the difficulties to differentiate, clinically, infection and calcium pyrophos...

Molecular Detection Method for All Known Genotypes of TT Virus (TTV) and TTV-Like Viruses in Thalassemia Patients and Healthy Individuals Yu-Wen Hu,* Moslih I. Al-Moslih, Mahmoud Talib Al Ali, Shabnam Rahimi Khameneh, Heather Perkins, Francisco Diaz-Mitoma, Jean Nicholas Roy, Samra Uzicanin, and Earl G. Brown Canadian Blood Services, 1800 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1G 4J5; Depar...

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AIM To present a summary of the lifestyle, genetic origin, diet, and disease in the population of Sami, indigenous people of northern Fennoscandia. METHOD A survey of the available scientific literature and preliminary results from our own study of the Swedish Sami population. RESULTS The Sami probably have a heterogeneous genetic origin, with a major contribution of continental or Eastern ...