No association between body height and metabolic risk factors in historically short height Asian Indian tribes
Background: Asian Indians often get predisposed to non-communicable diseases for which the “thin-fat” or “hidden obese” Indian phenotype is usually regarded responsible. In Europe, America and in some low-middle-income countries (LMICs) short height is often associated with a high risk of metabolic...
Main Authors: | Binu Dorjee, Jaydip Sen, Mithun Das, Kaushik Bose, Christiane Scheffler, Gautam Kumar Kshatriya |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universitätsverlag Potsdam
2022-09-01
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Series: | Human Biology and Public Health |
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Online Access: | https://www.human-biology-and-public-health.org/index.php/hbph/article/view/32 |
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