Indians Yanomami
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1. Água e saúde dos povos indígenas Yanomami (Região do Toototobi, Balawaú, Demini e Paapiú) e Wapishana (Maloca da Malacacheta) - Brasil
The present work is a result of the interest in studying the quality of water consumed by Yanomami and Wapishana Indians, as well as its influence on these people health. It was carried through a search among health professionals who care for Indian patients aiming to get socio environmental data and list the principal diseases associated with quality of wat
Publicado em: 2006
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2. The Yanomami indians in the INTERSALT study
OBJECTIVE: To study the distribution and inter-relationship among constitutional and biochemical variables with blood pressure (BP) in an population of Yanomami indians. To compare these findings with those of other populations. METHODS: The Yanomami indians were part of the INTERSALT, a study comprising 10,079 males and females, aged from 20 to 59 years, be
Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia. Publicado em: 2003-03
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3. Trachoma among the Yanomami Indians
The Yanomami are one of the last primitive groups of Indians living in Brazil. They have almost no contact with other cultures. The epidemiology of eye disease among Yanomami is virtually unknown. For the first time, a trachoma survey was conducted among Yanomami Indians in the State of Amazonas near the Venezuelan border of the Brazilian rain forest. Ophtha
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. Publicado em: 2002-10
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4. An epidemic of tuberculosis with a high rate of tuberculin anergy among a population previously unexposed to tuberculosis, the Yanomami Indians of the Brazilian Amazon
A survey of an emerging tuberculosis epidemic among the Yanomami Indians of the Amazonian rain forest provided a unique opportunity to study the impact of tuberculosis on a population isolated from contact with the tubercle bacillus for millennia until the mid-1960s. Within the Yanomami population, an extraordinary high prevalence of active tuberculosis (6.4
The National Academy of Sciences of the USA.