A new study finds that compared with Europeans or Americans, Inuit living in Greenland have high mean values of subcutaneous fat, which is thought to represent a more favorable pattern of adiposity.

The increased Inuit population in Canadian Metropolitan Areas (CMA) has recently gained attention among the scientific community as well as within Inuit organizations. However, existing literature has ...

Cases of cancer and hypertension are much higher among Inuit living in and around Ottawa than for the general population of Canada's capital city. This is according to a study co-led by Janet Smylie ...

In 2018, the federal government and ITK pledged to reduce the incidence rates of active tuberculosis in Inuit Nunangat in half by 2025, compared with 2016 rates. It also committed to eliminating the ...

Canadian Journal of Public Health / Revue Canadienne de Santé Publique, Vol. 99, No. 1 (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2008), pp. 17-21 (5 pages) Background: The prevention and management of Type 2 diabetes ...

Hunger in Nunavut is widespread enough that Pangnirtung’s Community Wellness Coordinator Sabrina Maniapik reported that she herself struggled to feed her family during the years she was not working ...

Cases of cancer and hypertension are much higher among Inuit living in and around Ottawa than for the general population of Canada's capital city. This is according to a study co-led by Janet Smylie ...

Uuva Panioyalok Edmontonmi. Inuit katinmata ipakhani nirijami, uplapqijutlu, quviahugaaktut. Tasha Panioyalok Ng, of Edmonton ...

Edited by Neil Christopher, Noel McDermott, and Louise Flaherty; Illustrated by Germaine Arnattaujaq; Inhabit Media Inc., 2024; 320 pages; $34.95. “It is difficult, if not impossible, for any person ...

Nunatsiavut is a beautiful and unique part of Canada, a self-governing Inuit region within the province of Newfoundland and Labrador that is home to some 2,300 Inuit living along the coast. The ...

“Inuktitut was my first language, but I’m slowly losing it since I don’t really have that opportunity to practice my culture as much as if I lived up north,” she recently said in a TikTok video. “That ...