Inuit anthropometry and insulin resistance
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Due to the increasing prevalence of obesity among Inuit, a study was conducted in an Inuit community to evaluate the anthropometric correlates of indices of insulin resistance using the homeostasis model assessment index (IR(HOMA)) and the insulin sensitivity index (ISI(0,120)). STUDY DESIGN: Data were collected as part of a health screening in a Baffin community in Nunavut, Canada, among adults 18 years of age and above. METHODS: A total of 52 Inuit participated in the health screening of which 46 completed both the fasting and the 2-hour blood tests. Insulin sensitivity indices could be calculated on 45 participants. RESULTS: Results for women indicated that in age-adjusted linear regression analyses, body mass index, waist circumference (WC) and percent body fat (%BF) predicted IR(HOMA), and ISI(0,120) (p < 0.05). For men, %BF predicted IR(HOMA), and WC and %BF predicted ISI0,120 (p < or = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The present study suggests that increasing rates of obesity among Inuit will have health consequences and that anthropometry is a useful tool to indirectly assess insulin resistance/sensitivity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".