Nutrition Transition and Health Outcomes Among Indigenous Populations of Chile.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over the past several decades, rural and indigenous populations in Latin America have experienced abrupt and profound transformations in their lifestyles and economies, many having remarkable health consequences. Yet, these changes have had heterogeneous effects on the population's biology in different local contexts.

Objectives

The primary goal was to characterize the nutrition transition and biomarkers of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) risk in 2 Chilean indigenous populations that have had divergent histories of subsistence strategies (agropastoralism compared with hunter-gathering) in the last few millennia and live in contrasting environments, and to identify context-specific factors driving the nutrition and epidemiological transitions.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Fernandez CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7180001 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature