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Excess weight and associated factors among Xavante Indigenous adults, Central Brazil.
Cien Saude Colet
December 2024
Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.
Considered an important public health problem among Indigenous peoples in Brazil, obesity is a risk factor for Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and conditions. The present study aimed to describe the occurrence of excess weight, obesity, and associated factors in Xavante Indigenous adults, through a nutritional survey carried out in the population ≥ 15 years of age living in the Pimentel Barbosa and Wedezé Indigenous Lands, Mato Grosso, Central Brazil, during the period of June to August 2011. Eight of the 10 villages in the territory were investigated.
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Sci Rep
January 2023
Molecular Cancer Research Center, Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Genetic compositions of distinct human populations are different. How genomic variants influence many common and rare genetic diseases is always of great medical and anthropological interest, and understanding of genetic architectures of population groups in relation to diseases can advance our knowledge of medicine. Here, we have studied the genomic architecture of a group of Xavante Indians, an indigenous population in Brazil, and compared them with normal populations from the 1000 Genomes Projects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevalence of anemia among Indigenous children in Latin America: a systematic review.
Rev Saude Publica
December 2022
Heidelberg University. Heidelberg Institute for Global Health. Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Objective: To describe the prevalence pattern of anemia among Indigenous children in Latin America.
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A'uwẽ (Xavante) views of food security in a context of monetarization of an indigenous economy in Central Brazil.
PLoS One
March 2022
Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Following boom-and-bust economic cycles provoked by Brazilian governmental attempts to integrate Indigenous peoples into national society, it is approximately since the beginning of the 2000s that Brazilian Indigenous peoples came to be viewed officially as "poor" and victims of "hunger." Consequently, the national indigenist agency and other State entities started to conceive and implement diverse initiatives that ultimately injected money and resources into Indigenous communities. In 2019 we undertook an ethnographic study in three A'uwẽ (Xavante) communities in the Pimentel Barbosa Indigenous Reserve, Central Brazil, with the objective of analyzing how people understand and pursue food security.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAssociation of fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene rs9939609 with obesity-related traits and glucose intolerance in an indigenous population, the Xavante.
Diabetes Metab Syndr
January 2022
Division of Endocrinology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Background And Aims: Common variants in fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene have been implicated as a susceptibility locus for obesity and type 2 diabetes in different populations. Here, in an indigenous population-based study, we examined whether FTO rs9939609 has a role in susceptibility to glucose intolerance and obesity.
Methods: The study population comprised 949 full Xavante indigenous people (465 men) aged 18-99 years.
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