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The present work collects one of the partial aspects treated in a larger study about the morphophysiological characteristics of the Cuenca population: the incidence of obesity and their possible effects in present day populations.
Cuenca is a province in Castilla country with perfectly defined geographical areas and micro-environments which makes it a particularly interesting place for this kind of study.
More than 2000 persons of both sexes from the rural zones (Sierra and Alcarria) and urban zones (Cuenca city) were studied. We have analyzed, in the school age populations and in young adults (up to 30 years old), the influence of obesity on blood pressure, and on the sexual, ontogenetic and socio-environmental variables.
This study was included in the grant project from RUMASA anthropometry in Spain.
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Prado, C., Andersen, A.H. & Martinez, R. The relationship obesity-blood pressure, attending to ontogenetics and socio-environmental variation. Study in Cuenca province (Spain). Int. J. Anthropol. 1, 153–164 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02447352
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