Gender diversity in developing overweight over 35 years of Westernization in an Inuit hunter cohort and ethno-specific body mass index for evaluation of body-weight abnormalities

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 735-740

  Andersen, Stig ^a,b   Mulvad, Gert ^c   Pedersen, Henning Sloth ^c   Laurberg, Peter ^b  

^a Queen Ingrids Hospital   (Greenland)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Primary Health Clinic   (Greenland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ESKIMO; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GREENLAND; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; CULTURE; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HUMANS; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; URBANIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 11844286281     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.0.1510735     Document Type: Article

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