Prevalence of Smoking and Its Relationship with Carotid Atherosclerosis in Alaskan Eskimos of the Norton Sound Region: The GOCADAN Study

• Published in: Nicotine & Tobacco Research
• Main Authors: Kaufman, David J., Roman, Mary J., Devereux, Richard B., Fabsitz, Richard R., MacCluer, Jean W., Dyke, Bennett, Ebbesson, Sven O. E., Wenger, Charlotte R., Romanesko, Terry, Comuzzie, Anthony G., Howard, Barbara V.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2008
• Subjects: Original Articles; Norton Sound; eskimo*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/10/3/483; https://doi.org/10.1080/14622200801901955

Since 2000, the Genetics of Coronary Artery Disease in Alaska Natives (GOCADAN) study has been collecting information on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its risk factors from 1,214 Alaska Natives of the Norton Sound region, a population with increasing rates of heart disease and stroke. Because smo...