标题：Medical and Nutritional Surveys in The Kingdom of Tonga; Comparison of Physiological and Nutritional Status of Adult Tongans in Urbanized (Kolofo-ou) and Rural (Uiha) Areas
期刊名称：Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology
印刷版ISSN：0301-4800
电子版ISSN：1881-7742
出版年度：1984
卷号：30
期号：4
页码：341-356
DOI：10.3177/jnsv.30.341
出版社：Center for Academic Publications Japan
摘要：The physiological and nutritional status of adult Tongans in rural (Uiha, 50 males and 58 females) and urbanized (Kolofo-ou, 77 males and 71 females) areas were surveyed in 1977 and 1979, respectively. Adult Tongans of both sexes in the two districts had considerably large physiques. Being different from the obesity found in peoples of industrialized countries, the obese state of adult Tongans was associated with large muscularity, low incidence of glucosuria, ECG abnormalities and hypertension, and normal plasma cholesterol levels. However; modernization has started to have an influence upon the health of adult Tongans; relatively high levels in parameters relating to obesity as well as higher incidence of hypertension were observed in adult Tongans in Kolofo-ou as compared to adult Uiha islanders.
关键词：The Kingdom of Tonga;rural and urbanized areas;adult Tongans;physiological and nutritional status;obesity
