title: Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the indigenous population, aged 19 to 69 years, from Jaguapiru Village, Dourados (MS), Brazil.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in an indigenous Brazilian population.
  
  
  METHODS
  Indigenous Brazilians aged 18-69 years from Jaguapiru Village, Dourados, MS were studied. Participants were selected by simple random sampling of 360 houses in the village. The abdominal circumference of the population was evaluated, and measurements <80 cm for females or <90 cm for males were considered normal. Capillary blood glucose levels by glucometer and oral glucose tolerance tests were measured, and, when necessary, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels were assessed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 632 indigenous Brazilians in the study, 281 were males. We observed that 287 (45.4%) presented abdominal circumference values greater than normal; of those, 199 were women (43.4% of all women in the study) and 88 were men (26.1% of all men in the study).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Metabolic syndrome is common in the Indian Jaguapiru Village.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Medicine Department, College of Health Sciences, Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados. gfor@brturbo.com.br
authors.forename: Geraldo Ferreira
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.forename: Teresinha Regina Ribeiro
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.forename: Fernanda França
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.forename: Lincoln Ferreira
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Corrêa
authors.forename: Thyego Barreto
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: de Arruda
authors.forename: Luiz Augusto
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Casulari
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000886:Anthropometry; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007199:Indians, South American; D008297:Male; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors