RAISED BMI CUT-OFF FOR OVERWEIGHT IN GREENLAND INUIT – A REVIEW

Raised BMI cut-off for overweight in Greenland Inuit – a review

Background.Obesity is associated with increased morbidity and premature death.Obesity rates have increased worldwide and the WHO recommends monitoring.A steep rise in body mass index (BMI), a measure of adiposity, was detected in Greenland from 1963 to 1998.Interestingly, the BMI Tea Spoon starting point was in the overweight range.This is not conc

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Identification of dynamical changes of rabies transmission under quarantine: Community-based measures towards rabies elimination.

Quarantine has been long used as a public health response to emerging infectious Caps diseases, particularly at the onset of an epidemic when the infected proportion of a population remains identifiable and logistically tractable.In theory, the same logic should apply to low-incidence infections; however, the application and impact of quarantine in

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