Acute myocardial infarction among Navajo Indians, 1976-83.
- 1 April 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 76 (4) , 412-414
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.76.4.412
Abstract
We found that from 1976 through 1983 the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) diagnosed among Navajo Indians remained low (0.5 per 1,000 persons age 30 years or more), although the incidence in women appears to be climbing. Navajo AMI patients are more likely to be hypertensive and diabetic than age- and sex-matched patients with gallbladder disease. Twenty-four per cent die within one month of AMI.This publication has 32 references indexed in Scilit:
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