Human obesity and Arctic adaptation: epidemiological patterns, metabolic effects and evolutionary implications

Human obesity and Arctic adaptation: epidemiological patterns, metabolic effects and evolutionary implications

<p>The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the occurrence, determinants and consequences of obesity among the Inuit people in the central Canadian Arctic, based on the Keewatin Health Assessment Study (KHAS), conducted during 1990/91 in 8 Inuit communities in the Northwest Territo...

书目详细资料
主要作者:	Young, T
其他作者:	Harrison, G
格式:	Thesis
语言:	English
出版:	1994
主题:	Anthropology Medical and ecological anthropology

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