Health

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• Subjects: First Nations
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disparities are evident in Canadawhen comparing Aboriginal communi-ties to the majority population, as Was-simi and colleagues point out in their study of perinatal and postneonatal mortality by birth-weight.1 In a step toward understanding the higher infant mortality among First Nations communities, the authors tackled the interesting question of whether there are survival advan-tages to large-for-gestational-age birthweight. In other words, are big babies better survivors? The study focused on First Nations people liv-ing in Quebec. Only those who reported speak-ing their First Nations language were included because they were identified in this manner. This population was compared with infants of Quebecers whose mother tongue is French.