Anthropometric and metabolic profile of a Brazilian Amerindian group: The Xikrin (Mebengôkre)
| Autor: | Eliene S. R. Sacuena, Greice L. Cardoso‐Costa, João Farias Guerreiro, Cláudia C. Barbosa, André M. Pinto |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Waist 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Overweight 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Internal medicine Diabetes mellitus Genetics medicine Prevalence Humans 0601 history and archaeology Young adult Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Aged Aged 80 and over 060101 anthropology Anthropometry business.industry Indians South American 06 humanities and the arts Middle Aged medicine.disease Obesity Causality Blood pressure Cardiovascular Diseases Anthropology Metabolome Female Anatomy medicine.symptom business Dyslipidemia Brazil |
| Zdroj: | American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council. 31(4) |
| ISSN: | 1520-6300 |
| Popis: | Objectives The purpose of this study was to describe the metabolic and anthropometric profile of the Xikrin (Mebengokre), an indigenous group. Methods A total of 363 subjects (55.1% women) aged 18 years or older were evaluated. The variables analyzed were age, body weight and height, waist circumference, blood pressure, fasting blood glucose, triglyceride level, and total cholesterol level. Results A high prevalence of obesity (36.5%) and central obesity (88.1%), mainly among women (46.9% and 96.2%, respectively), was found among the Xikrin (Mebengokre). Impaired fasting glycemia and diabetes were found in 4.5% and 3.8% of adults, respectively. Twenty-one percent of adults had dyslipidemia and 9.3% had hypertension. Conclusions The high prevalence of excess weight (overweight and obesity) and central obesity, especially in women, was the most significant finding of this study among the Xikrin (Mebengokre). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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