Adult obesity: Panel study from native Amazonians

Wu Zeng; Dan T.A. Eisenberg; Karla Rubio Jovel; Eduardo A. Undurraga; Colleen Nyberg; Susan Tanner; Victoria Reyes-García; William R. Leonard; Juliana Castaño; Tomás Huanca; Thomas W. McDade; Ricardo Godoy

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Adult obesity: Panel study from native Amazonians

Wu Zeng^*, Dan T.A. Eisenberg, Karla Rubio Jovel, Eduardo A. Undurraga, Colleen Nyberg, Susan Tanner, Victoria Reyes-García, William R. Leonard, Juliana Castaño, Tomás Huanca, Thomas W. McDade, Ricardo Godoy

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This paper examines three morphological indicators measuring obesity among a native Amazonian population of foragers-farmers in Bolivia (Tsimane') and estimates the associations between them and standard covariates of obesity (e.g.; socioeconomic status [SES]). We collected annual data from 350 non-pregnant women and 385 men ≥20 years of age from all 311 households in 13 villages during five consecutive years (2002-2006). We used three indicators to measure obesity: body-mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and body fat using bioelectrical impedance analysis (BF-BIA). We ran separate individual random-effect panel multiple regressions for women and men with wealth, acculturation, health, and household food availability as key covariates, and controlled for village and year fixed effects and village × year interaction effects. Although BMI increases by a statistically significant annual growth rate of 0.64% among women and 0.37% among men over the five years, the increase does not yield significant biological meanings. Neither do we find consistent and biologically meaningful covariates associated with adult obesity.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	227-235
Number of pages	9
Journal	Economics and Human Biology
Volume	11
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2012.01.005
State	Published - Mar 2013

Keywords

BMI
Bolivia
Overweight
Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS)

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