title: The influences of race and environment on ischemic heart disease.
abstract: Certain "primitive" peoples such as traditional-living nomadic Eskimos have as yet been spared from the current epidemic of ischemic heart disease. A review of risk factors for underdeveloped populations suggests that environment rather than constitution is responsible. Favourable factors include the absence of overeating, a substantial level of of physical activity, only recent acquisition of the cigarette habit and absence of competitiveness. However, risk factors generally operate as in the "white" community, and where a Western lifestyle is embraced through either migration or acculturation the prevalence of ischemic heart disease rapidly increases to the levels encountered in "civilized" groups.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D044383:Black People; D001777:Blood Coagulation; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006244:Hardness; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension; D004930:Inuit; D008297:Male; D005082:Physical Exertion; D044469:Racial Groups; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood; D014867:Water; D044465:White People
chemical_list: D014280:Triglycerides; D014867:Water; D002784:Cholesterol; D005947:Glucose