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December 2005, Vol 95, No. 12 | American Journal of Public Health 2122-2123
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.072645

LETTER

STRESS, TRAUMA, AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE AMONG NATIVE AMERICANS

Ann Bullock, MD and Ronny A. Bell, PhD, MS

Ann Bullock is with the Health and Medical Division, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee, NC. Ronny A. Bell is with the Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Ann Bullock, MD, Health and Medical Division, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, John Crowe Hill, Cherokee, NC 28719 (e-mail: annbull@nc-cherokee.com).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

In the May 2005 issue, which focused on Native Americans/Alaska Natives, we were especially interested in the article by the American Indian Service Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors Project (AI-SUPERPFP) Team, "Social Epidemiology of Trauma Among 2 American Indian Reservation Populations."1 This study quantified exposure to trauma among American Indians, adding to the existing evidence2,3 that this population experiences a disproportional amount of trauma. We were intrigued by the statement "It may be that high rates of trauma exposure contribute to the increasing prevalence of cardiovascular disease among American Indian men and women, the leading cause of . . . [Full Text]






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