Objective: To estimate the prevalence of obesity and overweight and associated factors in
indigenous people of the Jaguapiru village in Central Brazil. Methods: We conducted a …

To carry out a systematic review to identify the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the
adult indigenous population in Brazil. The databases used were PubMed, Scopus, Virtual …

Background Obesity is a major risk factor for hypertension, and abdominal fat in particular
has been more strongly associated with cardiovascular diseases and its prevalence has …

Objective: This article assesses the nutritional status of Indigenous women from 14 to 49
years of age in Brazil. Design: Sample size was calculated for each region considering a …

Objective The aim of the present study was to assess the prevalence of hypertension and
cardiovascular risk factors among the native indigenous of Jaguapiru village in Dourados …

Background: Brazil has more than 200 indigenous peoples with 170 different languages that
result in different epidemiological and demographic situations. The objective of this study …

Objective To determine the prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and impaired glucose
tolerance in indigenous people from Aldeia Jaguapiru, in Dourados, state of Mato Grosso do …

Este estudo caracteriza o estado nutricional, estima a prevalência de sobrepeso e de
obesidade abdominal e investiga os fatores associados em adultos de comunidades …

Objective. To estimate which risk factors (sociodemographic, lifestyle, and health conditions)
are associated with overweight and obesity in Japanese‐Brazilians. Methods. This was a …

Objective To evaluate the frequency of obesity and lifestyle risk factors in the population of
Barra do Garças, Legal Amazon. Methodology A randomized, transversal study with 305 …