Background Internationally, studies have shown that childhood violence is associated with chronic pain in adulthood. However, to date, this relationship has not been examined in any indigenous population. Objective The main objectives of this study were to investigate the association between childhood violence and reported chronic pain, number of pain sites and the intensity of pain in adulthoo...

OBJECTIVES Self-rated health (SRH) and associated risk and protective correlates were investigated among two indigenous adolescent populations, Greenlandic Inuit and Norwegian Sami. DESIGN Cross-sectional data were collected from "Well-being among Youth in Greenland" (WBYG) and "The Norwegian Arctic Adolescent Health Study" (NAAHS), conducted during 2003-2005 and comprising 10th and 11th grad...

BACKGROUND Samis are indigenous people in north Europe. In the territory called Sápmi (Lapland), reindeer herding is the traditional base for the Sami economy. The relation between living conditions and positive health of the Swedish Samis has been sparsely studied. As health is closely linked to sense of coherence (SOC), an understanding of the background factors to SOC may contribute knowledg...

Objective Measure the prevalence of self-reported myocardial infarction (SMI) in Sami and non-Sami populations in rural areas of Norway, and explore whether possible ethnic differences could be explained by established cardiovascular risk factors. Design Cross-sectional population-based study. Methods A health survey was conducted in 2003-2004 in areas with Sami and non-Sami populations (SAMINO...

<p class="16bIsiAbstrak">Kecerdasan interpersonal adalah kemampuan manusia untuk beradaptasi dengan lingkungan dan sekitar. Fokus kajian artikel ini ialah membahas konsep pendidikan kecerdasan remaja awal dalam perspektif Mahmud al-Mashri buku beliau yang berjudul <em>Adab al-Thifli al-Muslim Lishigor Walkibar</em>. Metode penelitian menggunakan kualitatif pendekatan deskripti...

OBJECTIVE To assess coffee consumption in the Sami and Norwegian populations and to investigate the impact of unfiltered boiled coffee consumption on serum cholesterol concentrations. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. Information was collected by self-administrated questionnaires and total serum cholesterol was analysed. Participants were divided into three ethnic groups: Sami I (Sami used as h...

Pan African Medical Journal. 2016; 24:55 doi:10.11604/pamj.2016.24.55.8930 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/24/55/full/ © Sami Aziz Brahmi et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2....

OBJECTIVES Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is recognised as a reliable long-term predictor of adverse health outcomes. Elevated prevalence rates of MetS and chronic lifestyle diseases have been documented in different indigenous groups. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of MetS and diabetes mellitus in relation to ethnicity in Northern Norway. In addition, we discussed different cut-off values for ...

Sami C. Al-Izzi, George Rowlands, Pierre Sens, and Matthew S. Turner Department of Mathematics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom Institut Curie, PSL Research University, CNRS, Physical Chemistry Curie, F-75005 Paris, France Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, UMR 168, F-75005 Paris,...