The effects of lifestyle change on indicators of cardiometabolic health in semi-nomadic pastoralists.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Non-communicable disease risk and the epidemic of cardiometabolic diseases continue to grow across the expanding industrialized world. Probing the relationships between evolved human physiology and modern socioecological conditions is central to understanding this health crisis. Therefore, we investigated the relationships between increased market access, shifting subsistence patterns and cardiometabolic health indicators within Daasanach semi-nomadic pastoralists who vary in their engagement in traditional lifestyle and emerging market behaviors.

Methodology

We conducted cross-sectional socioecological, demographic and lifestyle stressor surveys along with health, biomarker and nutrition examinations among 225 (51.6% female) Daasanach adults in 201

SUBMITTER: Swanson ZS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10576223 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature