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. 2019 Jun 3;2019:9741090. doi: 10.1155/2019/9741090

Table 4.

Obesity prevalence in provincial studies conducted among Inuit.

# Provincial studies (year) Province Population Age Measured height and weight Self-reported height and weight n (M) n (F) Year of data collection Definition of obesity Obesity prevalence (%) Reference Difference compared to CCHS 2007–10
All M F Non-Indigenous Inuit
A SQHSIN Quebec Inuit in all 14 Nunavik villages 18–74 270 0 1992 BMI ≥ 30 19 15 24 [105] N/A N/A

B NHS Quebec Inuit in all 14 Nunavik villages 18–74 925 0 2004 BMI ≥ 30 28 25 31 [106] +13 N/A

C NCP Nunavut and Northwest Territories Inuit in 18 communities throughout the Inuit Nunangat (not including Nunavik) 20+ 375 0 289 272 1998-99 BMI ≥ 30 24 18 30 [36] N/A N/A

D IPY-IHS Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Labrador Inuit in 36 communities throughout the Inuit Nunangat (not including Nunavik) 18+ 2178 0 837 1341 2007-08 BMI ≥ 30 36 26 41 [24] N/A N/A
Labrador Inuit in 5 communities in Nunatsiavut 18+ 260 0 2007-08 BMI ≥ 30 41 [24] +15 +3
Northwest Territories Inuit in 6 communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region 18+ 264 0 2007-08 BMI ≥ 30 49 [24] +27 +13
Nunavut Inuit in 25 communities in Nunavut 18+ 1654 0 2007-08 BMI ≥ 30 33 [24] +2 +11

SQHSIN: Santé Quebec Health Survey among the Inuit of Nunavik; NHS: Nunavik Health Survey Qanuippitaa? How are we? NCP: Northern Contaminants Program; IPY-IHS: International Polar Year Inuit Health Survey. Reviewers urge caution in the interpretation of differences between studies where the provincial rates of obesity were based, at least in part, on measured height and weight, because the CCHS 2007–10 results to which they are compared were based on self-reported height and weight.