• Main Authors: Sheldon W. Tobe, George Pylypchuk, Joan Wentworth, Er Kiss, John Paul Szalai, Nancy Perkins, Susan Hartman, Laurie Ironst
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Background; First Nations people with diabetes mellitus and; Canada; Indian; Sion; First Nations
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.631.7330; http://www.cmaj.ca/content/174/9/1267.full.pdf

Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertensionare at increased risk of cardiovascular events andchronic renal failure requiring dialysis.1 In Canada, the risk of progression to end-stage renal disease among such people is 7 times higher in the First Nations population than in the non-native...