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Increasing body size among adult Cook Islanders between 1966 and 1996
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There is limited evidence of a secular trend toward increased body size among populations in the Pacific Region, although some populations have shown a clear rise in overweight and obesity across the past 30 years or so. Mean height, weight and body mass index (BMI) of adults surveyed in 1996 on Rarotonga, the Cook Islands, are reported by age group and compared with data collected in 1966 by Evans and Prior, to determine the extent to which a secular trend in increasing body size has taken p...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Annals of Human Biology Journal website
- Volume:
- 28
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 363–373
- Publication date:
- 2001-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1464-5033
- ISSN:
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0301-4460
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- English
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- ora:8064
- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-24
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- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2001
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