ISSN 0043-3144 WIMJAD (Print) ISSN 0799-5199 (Online)
School of Clinical Medicine and Research, The Bahamas The University of the West Indies (UWI)
Nassau, The Bahamas
Presents
The 11th Annual Research Day
Weight Challenges in The Bahamas: Are We the Biggest Losers?
September 28–29, 2017
University of The Bahamas Auditorium Grosvenor Close Campus
Nassau, The Bahamas
SupplementVol 66 (Suppl 3): 1–32
September 28–29, 2017
EDITORIAL BOARD
ChairmanW Abel
Editor-in-ChiefEN Barton
Associate EditorsD Cohall DT Gilbert A HennisG Hutchinson
Assistant EditorsMO Castillo-Rangel T Ferguson W Francis J Plummer AK Soyibo H Trotman
DeansP Adams T PaulT SeemungalR Roberts (Director, UWI Clinical Training Programme)
TreasurerH Pearce
T Alleyne C Christie-Samuels IW CrandonN Duncan H FletcherY FugitaF Henry (CFNI)J Hospedales (PAHO) T JonesW McLaughlin
MO Owolabi A PearsonT RichardsDT Simeon (CARPHA)MF SmikleY Zhao
Editorial Advisory BoardJ BennettM BoyneFC Brosius IIIG BurkettW De La Haye D Eldemire-Shearer C EscofferyLF Ferder N Kissoon M LeeC Ogunsalu OO Oguntibeju A OjoM Samms-Vaughan GR SerjeantAAE Verhagen M Voutchkov RJ Wilks
Past EditorsJL Stafford 1951–1955JA Tulloch 1956–1960D Gore 1961CP Douglas 1962D Gore 1963–1966P Curzen 1967RA Irvine 1967–1969TVN Persaud 1970–1972GAO Alleyne 1973–1975V Persaud 1975–1995D Raje 1995–1996WN Gibbs 1996–1999
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West Indian Medical JournalPublished by the Faculties of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica,
St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, and Cave Hill, Barbados
School of Clinical Medicine and Research, The Bahamas The University of the West Indies (UWI)
Nassau, The Bahamas
Presents
The 11th Annual Research Day
Weight Challenges in The Bahamas: Are We the Biggest Losers?
September 28–29, 2017
University of The Bahamas Auditorium Grosvenor Close Campus
Nassau, The Bahamas
Editor-in-ChiefProfessor EN Barton
Scientific EditorProfessor DT Simeon
PUBLISHED BY THE WEST INDIAN MEDICAL JOURNAL FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, MONA, KINGSTON 7, JAMAICA, WEST INDIES
About the West Indian Medical Journal
• Inpublicationsince1951
• TheonlymedicaljournalintheEnglish-speakingCaribbean
• Fullyelectronic
• ThereferencejournalofdiseasesandmedicalresearchintheCaribbean
• Contents include original scientific research, reviews, briefcommunications, commentaries, viewpoints, proceedings ofclincopathologicalconferences,continuingmedicaleducationsections,dentalforum,casereports,andletters
• Published by the Faculties ofMedical Sciences,TheUniversity of theWest Indies,Mona, Jamaica, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, andCaveHill,Barbados
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