OBESITY AND GOUT
Trends In Maori Men
(Njt. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 13. Findings in two health survey* conducted by a Wellington Hospital team among groups of Maori people have shown similar trends.
The team has returned from a month in the Tiki Tiki area, 90 miles north of Gisborne, where 285 adults over 20 and 430 children under 12 were examined in three weeks. The people were from the Ngati-Porou tribe. At the same time last year the team undertook a similar survey among Maoris in the Ruatahuna Valley in the Ureweras, who belong to the Tuhoe tribe.
The principal trends to emerge in findings in both surveys were: A rather high proportion of the people were carrying excess weight and a high rate of gout among the men. In the women high blood pressure and symptoms suggesting coronary artery disease were found to be more prominent than has been reported among groups of European women studied in this way.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30057, 15 February 1963, Page 7
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