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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.

机译:村庄到城市中心的距离,是现代化的主要现代化变量,是巴布亚新几内亚海湾省Purari三角洲成年人的血压和体重指数差异。

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OBJECTIVE: The study examined the extent to which the geographical proximity of villages to an urban centre and other modernization variables are associated with variation in blood pressure and body mass index (BMI) of adults of the Purari delta of the Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG). METHODS: Mean BMI, systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) of 292 adults surveyed in 1995-1997 in the Purari delta, PNG, are reported by village of residence, and related to modernization variables, including village of residence, urban life, urban connectedness, economic status and education. RESULTS: Mean BMI, SBP and DBP differ according to village of residence, there being a gradient in mean blood pressure from highest in the village closest to the urban centre, Baimuru, and lowest in the village most distant from it. The gradients in these variables across the three villages are not due to differences in age structures between the villages. Place of residence, which represents the distance from town, has the greatest impact on the BMI of males, while among the females, the number of relatives living in urban centres had a significant effect on BMI. For both males and females, place of residence has the strongest effect on SBP. While for the males, place of residence is the only significant factor associated with SBP, for the females, SBP is also associated with BMI, level of income and to a lesser extent with age. Very similar results were obtained for DBP. CONCLUSIONS: Distance to urban centre appears to have a strong effect, relative to other modernization variables, on BMI and blood pressure, this effect being far stronger for males than for females. In large part, this effect operates by way of differences in number of sources of income as well as number of close relatives of women who are resident in an urban centre. Reasons for the male-female differences observed may include gender differences in degree of mobility, and possibly greater physical sensitivity of males to the environment than females. Traditionally, there have been clear divisions of labour between males and females, the latter spending longer in subsistence activities than the former. It is speculated that males have more free time to travel to town should they wish, while women may travel to town to take produce to market, and be limited by how much time they spend in town when they are there, by the need to return to carry out household and subsistence tasks. It may also be that young adult males are more susceptible to modernization, in that they exhibit a greater degree of non-conformity than young women, and may be more favourably disposed to adopt aspects of western lifestyle.
机译:目的:研究调查了村庄与城市中心的地理邻近程度以及其他现代化变量与巴布亚新几内亚海湾省普拉里三角洲成年人的血压和体重指数(BMI)的变化相关的程度(PNG)。方法:按居住村报告1995年至1997年在巴布亚新几内亚Purari三角洲进行调查的292名成年人的平均BMI,收缩压(SBP)和舒张压(DBP),并与现代化变量(包括居住村)相关,城市生活,城市联系,经济状况和教育。结果:平均BMI,SBP和DBP随居住村庄的不同而不同,平均血压的梯度从最靠近市中心的村庄Baimuru的最高点开始,到最远离城市中心的村庄的最低点为止。三个村庄中这些变量的梯度并不是由于村庄之间年龄结构的差异。居住地(代表距城镇的距离)对男性的BMI影响最大,而在女性中,居住在城市中心的亲戚数量对BMI产生重大影响。对于男性和女性,居住地对SBP的影响最大。虽然对于男性,居住地是与SBP相关的唯一重要因素,但对于女性,SBP也与BMI,收入水平以及年龄的较小程度相关。 DBP获得了非常相似的结果。结论:相对于其他现代化变量,到城市中心的距离似乎对BMI和血压有很强的影响,男性的这种影响远强于女性。在很大程度上,这种影响是通过收入来源的数量以及居住在城市中心的妇女的近亲的数量的差异来实现的。观察到的男女差异的原因可能包括活动程度的性别差异,以及男性对环境的生理敏感性可能比女性更高。传统上,男女之间存在明显的分工,后者在维持生计上的花费比前者更长。据推测,男性有更多的空闲时间去城镇旅行,而女性则可能去城镇将农产品运到市场,并且受到他们在城镇停留的时间,返回的需要的限制。开展家务和生计任务。也可能是年轻成年男性更容易接受现代化改造,因为他们比年轻女性表现出更大程度的不合格,并且可能更倾向于采用西方生活方式。

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