 Peter
Bjerregaard is Professor of Arctic Medicine at the National
Institute of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark (since 1996)
and Advisor to the Home Rule Government of Greenland. He graduated
in medicine from University of Copenhagen in 1972 and served
as District Medical Officer in Upernavik, Greenland during 1978-80.
He was Senior advisor on the Expanded Programme on Immunizations
to the Kenyan Ministry of Health in Nairobi during 1985-89.
He has been actively engaged in epidemiological
research in Greenland and was principal investigator of several
large population surveys and other research projects. He is
a member of the Greenland Medical Research Council, former chairman
of the Danish/Greenlandic Society for Circumpolar Health, and
President of the International Union for Circumpolar Health
(2000-2003), and scientific editor of the International Journal
for Circumpolar Health. He has published more than 90 monographs
and papers in peer-reviewed journals, predominantly on circumpolar
health. His current research interests include cardiovascular
disease and diabetes among the Inuit.
Selected Publications:
Bjerregaard P, Mulvad G, Pedersen HS. Cardiovascular
risk factors in Inuit of Greenland. Int J Epidemiol 1997;26:1182-90.
Bjerreggard P, Hansen JC. Organochlorines and heavy metals in
pregnant women from the Disko Bay area in Greenland. Sci Total
Environ 1999;245:195-202.
Johansen P, Pars T, Bjerregaard P. Lead, cadmium, mercury and
selenium intake by Greenlanders from local marine food. Sci
Total Environ 1999;245:187-194.
Juel K, Bjerregaard P, Madsen M. Mortality and life expectancy
in Denmark and in other European countries: What is happening
to the middle-aged Danes? Eur J Public Health 2000;10:93-100.
Bjerregaard P, Pedersen HS, Mulvad G. The associations of a
marine diet with plasma lipids, blood glucose, blood pressure
and obesity among the Inuit in Greenland. Eur J Clin Nutr 2000;54:732-7.
Iburg KM, Brønnum-Hansen H, Bjerregaard P. Health expectancy
in Greenland. Scan J Public Health 2001;29:5-12.
Pars T, Osler M, Bjerregaard P. Contemporary use of traditional
and imported food among Greenlandic Inuit. Arctic 2001;54:22-31.
Bjerregaard P, Curtis T. Cultural change and mental health in
Greenland. The association of childhood conditions, language
and urbanization with mental health and suicidal thoughts among
the Inuit of Greenland. Soc Sci Med 2002;54:33-48.
Bjerregaard P, Jørgensen ME, Lumholt P, Mosgaard L, Borch-Johnsen
K. Higher blood pressure among Inuit migrants in Denmark than
among the Inuit in Greenland. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002;56:279-84.
Bjerregaard P, Dewailly E, Young TK, et al. Blood pressure among
the Inuit (Eskimo) populations in the Arctic. Scand J Public
Health 2003;31:92-99.
Bjerregaard P, Jørgensen ME, Andersen S, Mulvad G, Borch-Johnsen
K. Decreasing overweight and central fat patterning with westernization
among the Inuit in Greenland and Inuit migrants. Int J Obesity
2002;26:1503-10.
Jørgensen ME, Bjerregaard P, Borch-Johnsen K. Diabetes
and impaired glucose tolerance among the Inuit of Greeland.
Diabetes Care 2002;25:1766-71.
Jørgensen ME, Glümer C, Bjerregaard P, et al. Obesity
and central fat pattern among Greenland Inuit and a general
population of Denmark (Inter99): Relationship to metabolic risk
factors. Int J Obesity 2003;27:1507-15.
Bjerregaard P, Young TK, Hegele RA. Low incidence of cardiovascular
disease among the Inuit – what is the evidence? Atherosclerosis
2003;166:351-7.
Jørgensen ME, Bjerregaard P, Gyntelberg F. Borch-Johnsen
K. Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among the Inuit in Greenland.
A comparison between two proposed definitions. Diabetic Medicine
2004;21:1237-42.
Bjerregaard P, Jørgensen ME, Borch-Johnsen K. Serum lipids
of Greenland Inuit in relation to Inuit genetic heritage, westernization
and migration. Atherosclerosis 2004;174:391-8.
email: pb@niph.dk
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