Understanding Risk Factors for Otitis Media in Rural Alaska Native Children: A Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To characterize the relationship between risk factors and otitis media in a rural Alaska Native population ages 1 to 4 yr.

Design

This prospective cohort study was a substudy to an analysis of hearing loss determinants in Alaska Native children. This study enrolled Alaska Native children ages 1 to 4 yr from 16 communities in the Bering Strait region of northwest Alaska between October 2021 and August 2022. The aim was to characterize the relationship between environmental, genetic, and dietary risk factors and otitis media in this population, including exposure to household running water, smoke from a wood-burning stove, cigarette smoke, number of people in the household, breastfeeding, and homozygosity for the carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 (CPT1A) arctic varian

SUBMITTER: Patterson RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12904226 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Mar-Apr 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature