The Xavante Longitudinal Health Study in Brazil: Objectives, design, and key results.

James R Welch Aline Alves Ferreira Felipe Guimarães Tavares J Rodolfo M Lucena Mauricio Viana Gomes Oliveira Ricardo Ventura Santos Carlos E A Coimbra

Published in: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council (2019)

Our findings reveal marked health disparities relative to the Brazilian national population and a complex dietary health epidemiology involving the double burden of malnutrition, rapidly changing nutritional indicators, and elevated metabolic disease risk. The topically broad multidisciplinary focus permitted construction of the richest longitudinal data set of socio-epidemiological information for an indigenous population in Brazil.

Keyphrases

public health
healthcare
health information
mental health
quality improvement
risk factors
health promotion
gene expression
human health
electronic health record
risk assessment
big data
dna methylation
climate change
data analysis