The Xavante Longitudinal Health Study in Brazil: Objectives, design, and key results.
James R WelchAline Alves FerreiraFelipe Guimarães TavaresJ Rodolfo M LucenaMauricio Viana Gomes OliveiraRicardo Ventura SantosCarlos E A CoimbraPublished 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.