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Introduction
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1990)
A basic premise of studies conducted in the 1950s and 1960s was that humans exhibited a uniform set of biological responses to the high altitude environment. Since then, investigations have been carried out in the North ...
Role of genetic and environmental factors in the increased blood pressures of Bolivian blacks
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999)
The tendency toward hypertension or higher blood pressure is more common in blacks than whites. The factors that account for these differences are attributed to both environmental and genetic factors. To clarify this issue, ...
Stress and female reproductive function: A study of daily variations in cortisol, gonadotrophins, and gonadal steroids in a rural Mayan population
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We report here on a longitudinal study of stress and women's reproduction in a small Kaqchikel Mayan community in rural Guatemala. Current understanding of the effects of stress on the reproductive axis in women is mostly ...
Honor Among Thieves: A Zooarchaeological Study of Neanderthal Ecology
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1996)
No abstract.
Relationship of serum cholesterol and truncal body fat distribution among Mexican Americans is accentuated by obesity
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1994)
The relationship of body fat distribution to serum cholesterol levels was evaluated in a sample of 3,040 Mexican Americans 18–74 years of age from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES) conducted ...
The education of one spouse and the fatness of the other spouse
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1989)
As shown in 702 wives with 9–12 years of education and 612 husbands similarly educated, the summed skinfolds of one spouse are influenced by the educational level of the other spouse, considerably so for the husbands. Women ...
Diet and health: Implications for reducing chronic disease risk. Committee on Diet and Health, National Research Council, xiv + 768 pp. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. 1989, $49.95 (cloth)
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1990)
No Abstract.