Nutrient Intake in a Partly Westernized Isolated Polynesian Population: The Funafuti Survey
Nutrient Intake in a Partly Westernized Isolated Polynesian Population: The Funafuti Survey
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部分西化的孤立波利尼西亚人群的营养摄入量：富纳富提调查
DOI：
10.2337/diacare.4.1.92
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发表时间：
1981
期刊：
影响因子：
16.2
通讯作者：
P. Zimmet
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作者：
Julie Wicking;Helen Ringrose;S. Whitehouse;P. Zimmet
饮食数据来自图瓦卢糖尿病流行病学调查期间的110名成年波利尼西亚人（土著富纳富提人）。富纳富提（图瓦卢的主岛）被选为部分城市化人口的代表，在过去的30年里，社会经济发生了进步的变化。富纳富提饮食中的热量分布与瑙鲁城市化的密克罗尼西亚人口和高加索人口中报告的几乎相同。糖尿病的患病率被发现比高加索人高出五倍。同样，高血压的患病率为11%（与高加索人的数字相同），而高血压在传统生活人群中几乎是未知的。妇女的糖尿病患病率和肥胖程度明显高于男子。波利尼西亚人可能对糖尿病有遗传易感性，这可能是从传统生活方式向西方生活方式的转变所揭示的。明显的肥胖现在是许多波利尼西亚人和波利尼西亚人的一个特征，并且必须列为糖尿病和高血压爆发的主要致病因素。
Dietary data were obtained from 110 adult Polynesians (indigenous Funafutians) during a diabetes epidemiologic survey in Tuvalu. Funafuti (the main island of Tuvalu) was chosen as representative of partly urbanized population that has seen progressive socioeconomic changes in the previous 30 yr. The distribution of calories in the Funafuti diet is almost identical to that reported in the urbanized Micronesian population of Nauru and in Caucasian populations. Prevalence of diabetes was found to be five times higher than that reported in caucasian populations. Similarly, the prevalence of hypertension was 11% (equal to Caucasian figures), whereas hypertension is virtually unknown in traditional-living populations. Prevalence of diabetes, and degree of obesity, is significantly greater in women than in men. It is possible that this Polynesian group may have a genetic susceptibility to diabetes, which may have been unmasked by change from a traditional to western life-style. Marked obesity is now a characteristic of many Polynesian and Micronesian populations, and must rank as a major causative factor for the diabetes and hypertension explosion.