An investigation of nutrition‐related risk factors in an isolated Aboriginal community in Northern Australia: advantages of a traditionally‐orientated life‐style
- 1 February 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 148 (4) , 177-180
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb112808.x
Abstract
Australian Aborigines develop a high frequency of type–2 diabetes mellitus when they make the transition from a traditional to an urban life‐style. Preliminary studies were conducted at an outstation...This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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