A Scoping Review of Obesity among Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Table 4

Obesity prevalence in provincial studies conducted among Inuit.

#	Provincial studies (year)	Province	Population	Age	Measured height and weight	Self-reported height and weight	(M)	(F)	Year of data collection	Definition of obesity	Obesity prevalence (%)			Reference	Difference compared to CCHS 2007–10
											All	M	F		Non-Indigenous	Inuit
A	SQHSIN	Quebec	Inuit in all 14 Nunavik villages	18–74	270	0	—	—	1992	BMI ≥ 30	19	15	24	[105]	N/A	N/A
B	NHS	Quebec	Inuit in all 14 Nunavik villages	18–74	925	0	—	—	2004	BMI ≥ 30	28	25	31	[106]	+13^†	N/A
C	NCP	Nunavut and Northwest Territories	Inuit in 18 communities throughout the Inuit Nunangat (not including Nunavik)	20+	375	0	289	272	1998-99	BMI ≥ 30	24	18	30	[36]	N/A	N/A
D	IPY-IHS	Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Labrador	Inuit in 36 communities throughout the Inuit Nunangat (not including Nunavik)	18+	2178	0	837	1341	2007-08	BMI ≥ 30	36	26	41	[24]	N/A	N/A
		Labrador	Inuit in 5 communities in Nunatsiavut	18+	260	0	—	—	2007-08	BMI ≥ 30	41	—	—	[24]	+15^†	+3^†
		Northwest Territories	Inuit in 6 communities in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region	18+	264	0	—	—	2007-08	BMI ≥ 30	49	—	—	[24]	+27^†	+13^†
		Nunavut	Inuit in 25 communities in Nunavut	18+	1654	0	—	—	2007-08	BMI ≥ 30	33	—	—	[24]	+2^†	+11^†

SQHSIN: Santé Quebec Health Survey among the Inuit of Nunavik; NHS: Nunavik Health Survey Qanuippitaa? How are we? NCP: Northern Contaminants Program; IPY-IHS: International Polar Year Inuit Health Survey. ^†Reviewers urge caution in the interpretation of differences between studies where the provincial rates of obesity were based, at least in part, on measured height and weight, because the CCHS 2007–10 results to which they are compared were based on self-reported height and weight.