Blood sugar levels, weights and heights of Tobagonians
Patrick, A.L.; Boyd-Patrick, H.A.
West Indian Medical Journal 34(2): 114-122
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-3144 PMID: 4036097 Document Number: 265423
In Plymouth and Bethesda, in Tobago, blood sugar levels, heights and weights were measured in a censused total adult population. Diabetes mellitus appears to be common and probably of similar prevalence to that of Trinidad and Jamaica. Mean wt of females were similar to those of males. There was a progressive loss of height with age in both sexes, consistent with a better nutritional status in the younger respondents. Compared with Jamaica and Guyana, weights and Quetelet's Indices were high.