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Original Article

Village distance from urban centre as the prime modernization variable in differences in blood pressure and body mass index of adults of the Purari delta of the Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea

Stanley J. Ulijaszek Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
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Slawomir Koziel Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland
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Michael Hermanussen Aschauhof 3, Altenhof, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 326-338 | Received 05 Aug 2003, Accepted 15 Feb 2005, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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