Behavioural risk factors of arterial hypertension in the Evenk population of the Russian Arctic

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Authors: Shadrina, Svetlana Semenovna, Sivtseva, Anna Innokentievna, Sivtseva, Elena Nikolaevna, Donskaya, Ara Andreevna, Ivanova, Olga Nikolaevna
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2019
• Subjects: Research Article; Arctic; Evenki; Sakha; Evenk; Evenks; Republic of Sakha; Yakutia
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6534235/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31116098; https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2019.1611329

The urgency of the problem under study is determined by the high prevalence of arterial hypertension among the indigenous minorities of the North in modern socio-economic conditions. The following article is aimed to evaluate the prevalence of behavioural arterial hypertension risk factors according...