Table 2.

Mortality from cardiovascular disease among Sami in comparison to the location-matched control populations*

Disease studied	Country	Population	Period	Control	Gender	No. of Sami	Person years†	Cardiovascular disease‡	Stroke‡	Subarachnoid hemorrhage‡
Coronary heart disease (45)	Finland	male reindeer herders	1981-1990	non-Sami Lappland area	male	5600		0.71-0.96
Ischemic heart disease (46)	Finland	Sami regions vs non-Sami regions	1961-1990	non-Sami Lappland area	male	743	8700	0.53-0.92
					female	641	7500	0.32-0.86
Cardiovascular disease (47)	Norway	Sami from Finnmark	1974-1992	non-Sami from the same area	male	551	8201	0.25-0.73
					female	552	8344	0.22-1.60
Cardiovascular disease and stroke (48)	Sweden	Sami from Northern Sweden	1961-2000	non-Sami from the same area	male	21 867	493 159	0.95-1.08	0.90-1.15	1.02-2.38
					female	19 854	475 803	1.07-1.29	0.92-1.21	1.02-2.24
Cardiovascular disease and stroke (49)	Sweden	Sami from Northern Sweden	1987-2002	non-Sami from the same area	male	8271	109 840	0.99-1.21	0.88-1.13	0.84-2.69
					female	3344	110 112	1.05-1.38	0.87-1.14	0.69-2.65

*Information on the cause of death was derived from death certificates.

†The total number of at risk years for the study population. Calculated from the total number of years each person was included in the study.

‡95% confidence interval of standardized mortality rate in Sami population for disease and country indicated.