Over the past three decades, tourism-based economic development has transformed social
and economic conditions in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Mayan communities have …

Over the past 40 years, tourism-based economic development has transformed social and
economic conditions in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. We address how these changes …

Biocultural anthropology is a broad and holistic approach to the study of human biology
within social and cultural contexts. A critical biocultural approach furthers these …

The metabolic or insulin resistance syndrome, characterized by hypertension, dyslipidemia,
glucose intolerance and hyperinsulinemia, may have genetic determinants. The insulin …

Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease of worldwide distribution. The parasite exhibits strong
geographical patterns of strain variation with contrasting high levels of diversity across South …

El objetivo del presente trabajo fue el de efectuar un análisis de la evolución
epidemiológica y en particular del estilo de vida alimentaria en el Estado de Yucatán, para …

El presente trabajo de investigación se dedica al estudio de la relación del abandono de la
milpa, el sistema de subsistencia desarrollado alrededor del maíz como cultivo básico en …

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is rising rapidly and in Mexicans is~ 19%. T2D is
affected by both environmental and genetic factors. Although specific genes have been …

This chapter discusses the emergence of a critical biocultural medical anthropology and
some of the different research questions and projects that have employed this approach to …

We have examined the frequency of the EcoRI, XbaI and MspI RFLPs of the apolipoprotein
B (apo B) gene in 110 type 2 diabetic patients and 91 healthy control subjects in order to …