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Navajo individuals experience substantially lower cardiovascular-renal and diabetes mortality than other American populations.
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The large deficit in mortality from diseases of the cardiovascular- renal system and from diabetes mellitus among Navajo Indians is too great to be accounted for by certain types of errors in death certifica- tion.Further epidemiological studies are required to explain why this tribe enjoys a more favorable experience with these diseases than white and other nonwhite Americans.
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Robert Lincoln Smith (1957) studied this question. Navajo Indians experience a large deficit in mortality from cardiovascular-renal diseases and diabetes mellitus compared to white and other nonwhite Americans.
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