title: Some health indicators in New Zealand adolescents: The Rotorua Lakes Study 5.
abstract: This paper describes and compares health indicators in Maori and European adolescents attending a coeducational secondary school in New Zealand. No important differences were found in certain urinary constituents, haemoglobin or packed cell volume, fasting plasma glucose, serum urea nitrogen, pulse rate, age of menarche, hospital experience or tuberculin test-BCG status.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000419:Albuminuria / Q000453:epidemiology; D001500:BCG Vaccine; D001806:Blood Urea Nitrogen; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006306:Health Surveys; D006400:Hematocrit; D006454:Hemoglobins / Q000032:analysis; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008572:Menarche; D009520:New Zealand; D011188:Potassium / Q000652:urine; D012964:Sodium / Q000652:urine; D014374:Tuberculin Test
chemical_list: D001500:BCG Vaccine; D006454:Hemoglobins; D012964:Sodium; D011188:Potassium