dc.creatorLourenço, Ana Eliza Port
dc.creatorSantos, Ricardo Ventura
dc.creatorOrellana, Jesem Douglas Yamall
dc.creatorCoimbra Junior, Carlos Everaldo Alvares
dc.date2011-04-21T13:43:36Z
dc.date2011-04-21T13:43:36Z
dc.date2008
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T22:13:50Z
dc.date.available2023-09-26T22:13:50Z
dc.identifierLOURENÇO, Ana Eliza Port et al. Nutrition Transition in Amazonia: Obesity and Socioeconomic Change in the Suruı´ Indians from Brazil. American Journal of Human Biology, n. 20, p. 564-571, 2008.
dc.identifier1042-0533
dc.identifierhttps://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/1925
dc.identifier10.1002/ajhb.20781
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8876556
dc.descriptionThe purpose of this study was to assess the nutritional status of the adult Suruı´ population, an indigenous society from the Brazilian Amazon, as it relates to socioeconomic conditions. Fieldwork was carried out in February– March 2005, including 252 individuals (88.1% of the total eligible subjects older than 20 years of age in the villages surveyed). Anthropometric measurements were performed following standard procedures, and percentage of body fat (%BF) was measured by bioimpedance. To classify the Suruı´ according to socioeconomic status (SES), an index was constructed based on a group of variables to characterize socioeconomic differentiation. Evaluated by body mass index (BMI), the majority of Suruı´ 20–49.9 years of age were overweight (42.3%) or obese (18.2%). The frequency of obesity for women (24.5%) was twice that recorded for men. Subjects classified as overweight or obese also showed high %BF and waist circumference (WC). Women in the high SES category showed higher anthropometric values (including weight, BMI, arm fat area, and WC) and %BF than those of lower SES. This study shows that the Suruı´ are undergoing a rapid process of nutrition transition. This transition is closely associated with the emergence of intragroup differences in SES which have impacted diet and physical activity patterns. In research in indigenous peoples in Amazonia, greater attention should be paid to the human biological outcomes of socioeconomic transformations related to the growing involvement of native societies in the market economy. Am. J. Hum. Biol.
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dc.languageeng
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subjectNutrition Transition in Amazonia
dc.subjectObesity
dc.subjectSocioeconomic Change
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.titleNutrition Transition in Amazonia: Obesity and Socioeconomic Change in the Suruí Indians from Brazil
dc.typeArticle


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