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
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Nuuk; Ammassalik; East Greenland; inuit
• Online Access: https://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/59a6de4c-7ab4-4eee-8084-c12d3af6961b; https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22556

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 of overwe...