Cardiovascular Disease in American Indian and Alaska Native Youth: Unique Risk Factors and Areas of Scholarly Need

J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Oct 24;6(10):e007576. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.117.007576.

Jason F Deen^{1

2}, Alexandra K Adams^{3

4}, Amanda Fretts⁵, Stacey Jolly⁶, Ana Navas-Acien^{7

8}, Richard B Devereux⁹, Dedra Buchwald¹⁰, Barbara V Howard^{11

12}

¹ Division of Cardiology, Seattle Children's Hospital, University of Washington, Seattle, WA [email protected].
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA.
³ Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.
⁴ Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
⁶ Department of General Internal Medicine, Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
⁷ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY.
⁸ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD.
⁹ Division of Cardiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
¹⁰ College of Medicine, Washington State University, Spokane, WA.
¹¹ MedStar Health Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD.
¹² Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science, Washington, DC.

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Keywords: Alaska Native; American Indian; cardiovascular disease; risk factors; youth.

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