Inuit dietary patterns in modern Greenland

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-24

  Bjerregaard, Peter ^a,b   Jeppesen, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Department of Health   (Greenland)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Dietary patterns; Dietary recommendations; Factor analysis; Greenland; Inuit

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149153106     PISSN: 12399744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v69i1.17387     Document Type: Article

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