Forty‐five year trends in overweight and obesity in an indigenous arctic inuit society in transition and spatiotemporal trends

• Published in: American Journal of Human Biology
• Main Authors: Andersen, Stig, Rex, Karsten Fleischer, Noahsen, Paneeraq, Sørensen, Hans Christian Florian, Larsen, Nicolai Hardenberg, Mulvad, Gert, Laurberg, Peter
• Other Authors: Greenland Government
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Nuuk; Ammassalik; East Greenland; inuit
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22556; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fajhb.22556; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajhb.22556

ABSTRACT Objectives Overweight and obesity associate with increased morbidity and premature death. Westernization of societies heralds rising obesity rates. A steep increase in body mass index (BMI) and overweight in Greenland from 1963 to 1998 led us to follow‐up on height, weight, BMI, and rates o...