Diet and physical activity in Greenland: Genetic interactions and associations with obesity and diabetes

• Main Authors: Senftleber, Ninna Karsbk, Overvad, Maria, Dahl-Petersen, Inger Katrine, Bjerregaard, Peter, Jrgensen, Marit Eika
• Format: Review
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Toronto 2021
• Subjects: Greenland; inuit
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/106812; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/apnm-2021-0020

The Inuit in Greenland have gone through dramatic lifestyle changes during the last half century. More time is spent being sedentary and imported foods replaces traditional foods like seal and whale. The population has also experienced a rapid growth in obesity and metabolic disturbances and diabetes is today common despite being almost unknown few decades ago. In this paper, we describe and discuss the role of lifestyle changes and genetics for Inuit metabolic health. Novelty: • Cardiometabolic disease risk has increased in Greenland. Lifestyle changes and possibly gene-lifestyle interactions play a role. The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author.