Adverse Metabolic Risk Profiles in Greenlandic Inuit Children Compared to Danish Children

• Published in: Obesity
• Main Authors: Munch-Andersen, T., Sorensen, K., Andersen, L. B., Aachmann-Andersen, N. J., Aksglaede, L., Juul, A., Helge, Jørn Wulff
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Nuuk; greenlandic; inuit
• Online Access: https://curis.ku.dk/portal/da/publications/adverse-metabolic-risk-profiles-in-greenlandic-inuit-children-compared-to-danish-children(6f8d1195-e899-456c-ac4b-d2032f734b7d).html; https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.20203

Objective During recent decades, the prevalence of metabolic morbidity has increased rapidly in adult Greenlandic Inuit. To what extent this is also reflected in the juvenile Inuit population is unknown. The objective was, therefore, in the comparison with Danish children, to evaluate metabolic prof...