Background: It has long been suspected that Canadian Inuit children suffer from frequent
severe lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs), but the causes and risk factors have not …

It has been suspected that Inuit Children on Baffin Island suffer from severe, recurrent
episodes of bronchiolitis, hut this has never been documented previously. This study is a …

Objectives: To examine risk factors for lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) hospital
admission in the Canadian Arctic. Methods: This was a case-control study during a 14 …

Background. Inuit children in Nunavut, Canada, have high rates of lower respiratory tract
infection (LRTI) early in life. Whether this commonly results in chronic respiratory symptoms …

Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are frequent in Inuit children, in terms of incidence and
severity. A cohort of 294 children< 2 years of age was formed in Sisimiut, a community on …

BACKGROUND: Health care workers have long observed increased rates of hospital
admissions for respiratory illness in infants from the northern regions of Canada. Particularly …

Inuit infants have extremely high rates of lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI), but the
causes for this are unclear. The aims of this study were to assess, in young Inuit children in …

Acute respiratory infections cause considerable morbidity among Inuit children, but there is
very little information on the risk factors for these infections in this population. To identify …

Abstract First Nations and Inuit Children are disproportionately affected by respiratory
infections such as viral bronchiolitis, pneumonia and tuberculosis. Rates of long-term lung …

Background. Aboriginal children in central Australia have attack rates for acute lower
respiratory tract infection (ALRI) that are similar to those in developing countries. Although …