Nutrition transition in Amazonia: Obesity and socioeconomic change in the Suruí Indians from Brazil

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 564-571

  Lourenço, Ana Eliza Port ^a   Santos, Ricardo Ventura ^a,b   Orellana, Jesem D Y ^c   Coimbra Jr , Carlos E A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO LEÔNIDAS E MARIA DEANE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BRAZIL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 52249105982     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20781     Document Type: Article

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