"Samoa" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of islands in the southwest central Pacific, divided into AMERICAN SAMOA and the INDEPENDENT STATE OF SAMOA (Western Samoa). First European contact was made in 1722 by Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman. In 1768 they were named Navigators Islands by Louis de Bougainville. The present name may derive from that of a local chieftain or from a local word meaning place of the moa, a now-extinct island bird. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1061 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p481)
Concept/Terms
Samoa- Samoa
- Samoan Islands
- Samoa Islands
- Navigator Island
- Navigator Islands
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Samoa" by people in Profiles.
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Tenacious Endemic Typhoid Fever in Samoa. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 07 29; 71(Suppl 2):S120-S126.
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Dietary patterns are associated with child, maternal and household-level characteristics and overweight/obesity among young Samoan children. Public Health Nutr. 2018 05; 21(7):1243-1254.
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Sociodemographic factors influencing island foods consumption in the Pacific Islander Health Study. Ethn Health. 2020 02; 25(2):305-321.
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Dietary Patterns Are Associated with Metabolic Outcomes among Adult Samoans in a Cross-Sectional Study. J Nutr. 2017 04; 147(4):628-635.
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Cut-off levels for hyperandrogenemia among Samoan women: An improved methodology for deriving normative data in an obese population. Clin Biochem. 2016 Jul; 49(10-11):782-6.
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Dietary patterns are associated with metabolic syndrome in adult Samoans. J Nutr. 2009 Oct; 139(10):1933-43.
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Anger expression and lifestyle incongruity interactions on blood pressure in Samoan adults. Am J Hum Biol. 2006 May-Jun; 18(3):369-76.
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Body image differences among Malay, Samoan, and Australian women. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2006; 15(2):201-7.