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Cigarette smoking and cardiovascular risk factors among Aboriginal Canadian youths

Ravi Retnakaran, Anthony J.G. Hanley, Philip W. Connelly, Stewart B. Harris and Bernard Zinman

From the Division of Endocrinology (Retnakaran, Hanley, Zinman), the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology (Connelly) and the Department of Medicine (Retnakaran, Hanley, Connelly, Zinman), University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.; the Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes, Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, Ont. (Retnakaran, Hanley, Zinman); the J. Alick Little Lipid Research Laboratory, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ont. (Connelly); and the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. (Harris)


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  		Fig. 1: Prevalence of current smoking among 236 youths aged 10–19 years in the Oji-Cree community of Sandy Lake, in northwestern Ontario, and age-specific national averages from Health Canada's 1994 Youth Smoking Survey.18

 

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