Forty‐five year trends in overweight and obesity in an indigenous arctic inuit society in transition and spatiotemporal trends
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...
Published in: | American Journal of Human Biology |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2014
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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 |