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A study was conducted to search explicitly for interactions between lifestyle incongruity and anger expression on cross-sectional blood pressure (BP) variation in Samoan adults. The findings hypothesize that among young women, the higher BP might be due to stress arising from both a normative proscription against emotional expression, and a mismatch between their relatively higher educational level and material lifestyle and for young men, higher BP levels might be attributed to expected donations of earnings to the extended family that exceed their own material lifestyle.
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The association between body mass index (BMI) measured at age 50-59 years and survival in the subsequent 18 years of follow-up through a comparative study between the Union Army Records and the 1971-1975 National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey Epidemiological Follow-up Sample are investigated. A descriptive analysis of the trend in BMI suggests that the age-adjusted average BMI among adult white males has increased from 22.8 in the late 19th century to 28.0 in 2000.
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A study to describe the cross-sectional association between farm work and adiposity among adults residing in American Samoa in 2002 and 957 adults residing in Samoa in 2003 is presented. Farm work plays an important role in regulating body size and fatness of adult Samoans and may be ideal for interventions in the Samoan archipelago.
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