The Amazon is the largest native forest in the word. There, many isolated and relatively
unacculturated Amerindian populations still strive to keep their cultures untouched. In a …

Purpose To investigate the hypothesis that hypertension and coronary heart disease are"
civilization diseases", analyzing the distribution of their antecedents in an Indian population …

SUMMARY OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to describe the anthropometric
characteristics, eating habits, and lifestyle of non-village indigenous women living in …

Nine publications are reviewed concerning blood pressure (BP) levels among Amerindian
tribes of the Amazon Basin. The lifestyle of these lowland peoples includes most known …

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 …

OBJECTIVE Evaluating the evidence of hypertension prevalence among indigenous
populations in Brazil through a systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS A search …

Objectives: This study is a preliminary investigation of the relationship of acculturation to
body size and glucose intolerance among African Caribbeans living in the United States …

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 …

Background We described the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in groups of
Brazilian Indigenous people at different degrees of urbanization. Methods The Project of …

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 …