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Alcoholic cirrhosis among the Navahoarticle 1969 • Kunitz, Stephen J. et al.
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article presents '…an attempt to use the incidence of and the death rates due to Laennec's cirrhosis as a relatively direct gauge of high alcohol intake among the Navaho…' (p. 673). Data gathered from hospital records were used to compile statis...