"I got up to go to the podium, and I did not make it," he recalls. He was 50 years old, an unusually young age for a cardiac arrest.Lambert, a member of the Flying Dust First Nation, is not alone.
"I have worked in Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta. Anecdotally it's the same everywhere," Davis says. "But we don't have the data." It is well-known that risk factors that lead to heart attacks, such as diabetes, smoking and high blood pressure, are higher in the Indigenous population. A Public Health Agency of Canada report indicates that diabetes rates are three to five times higher for First Nations people who live on reserves than for the general population.
In Davis's study, the survival rate for cardiac arrest was similar among First Nations and non-First Nations populations -- about 15 per cent. The community has tried a nurse-led initiative to increase the number of fruit and vegetable deliveries each week. But it has been unable to secure government funding for the program.
And good old CTV to bring it to everyone’s attention.
Obesity rates are high, that’s why,
Must be their diet
That should not apply here. The actual % of Native blood is way below 50% in most MikMaq communities. Just look at Shubenadie or Truro. their cheif&councils are overwhelmingly less than50% Native. let’s face it. they’re much white. could see if they were to prove they were
The 'research' looked at cardiac arrests within the ambulance catchment area of Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital. And then CTV assumed it applied Canada wide.
Oh wait, this is a CTV post, so it probably has nothing to do with hereditary disease and everything to do with racism? Is this another “white” sin?
There is a genetic factor at play, same with everyone. So diet and exercise. But for the most part, it runs in families.
Big deal....life is harder the more north you live