Wednesday 30 May 2018

Growth of Greenlandic children is no longer stunted

(University of Southern Denmark Faculty of Health Sciences) Previous studies of growth of the indigenous Inuit people of Greenland, Canada and Alaska has characterized them as shorter but with the same weight as European or continental US citizens. Yet, this specific growth pattern was no longer found in the new study of growth of Greenlandic children conducted by researchers from University of Southern Denmark, which has just been published in the scientific journal Acta Paediatrica.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science https://ift.tt/2xu1Q6c

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