Table 1.

Summary of studies on the nutrient intake in Sami compared with geographically matched control populations*^†

Country	Control population	Gender	No. of Sami individuals	Total energy	Carbohydrates	E% protein	E% fat	E% carbohydrate	Vitamin B12	Niacin	Folate	Iron	Calcium	Zinc	Selenium	Sodium	Fiber
Sweden (30)	location matched controls	male	25	-	D	nr	nr	nr	I	-	D	-	D	I	I		D
		female	23	-	-	nr	nr	nr	-	-	-	I	-	I	I
Sweden (31)	location matched lumberjacks	male	31	I	D	I	I	D	I	-	D	-	D	-	I	nr	nr
		female	25	I	D	I	-	-	I	-	-	-	D	-	I	nr	nr
Finland (32)	Finnish reindeer herders	male	56	-	nr	I	D	-	nr	I	nr	I	D	nr	nr	nr	nr
Norway (33)	location matched controls	male	45	I	-	-	I	D	I	I	-	-	-	I	I	I	D
		female	30	-	-	-	-	-	I	I	-	-	-	-	I	I	D
Norway (34)	adolescents vs costal controls	male	16	-	-	I	-	-	nr	nr	nr	-	-	nr	nr	nr
		female	26	-	-	I	-	D	nr	nr	-	-	-	nr	nr	nr
Sweden (35)	reindeer herding Sami vs location matched controls	male	45	-	I	-	-	D	I	-	-	I	D	-	I	I
		female	32	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

*Abbreviations: minus – no difference between Sami and control population; I – increased in Sami compared to control population (P<0.05); D – decreased in Sami compared to control population (P<0.05); nr – not reported/not measured; E% – percent energy from that source.

†Only nutrients where differences have been found in two or more studies are included. For other common nutrients, no differences have been found, or differences were found in one study only.