Social Environment and Physiologic Adjustment in a Developing Society

该项目支持一位人类学家在以下领域进行研究： 巴西西南部的社会、种族和饮食因素 影响高血压的发病率， 成年人了 将对150户家庭进行调查和生物测试 评估心血管和代谢对压力的反应 进行。 待检验的假设假定个人 由于社会和种族原因， 在快速变化的社会中，他们的生活方式不协调 环境，将有高血压，高总 胆固醇和甘油三酯。 这项研究是重要的，因为快速的社会文化变化 发生在当代所有“传统”社会中， 世界 了解人类群体的生物学反应 快速变化带来的社会压力会帮助我们 了解人类社会和生物进化的过程。

This project supports an anthropologist conducting research in southwestern Brazil on the social, ethnic, and dietary factors affecting the incidence of high blood pressure in a sample of adults. 150 households will be surveyed and biological tests assessing cardiovascular and metabolic responses to stress conducted. The hypothesis to be tested assumes that individuals encountering high stress, due to their social and ethnic incongruity in their life styles in a rapidly changing social environment, will have high blood pressure, and high total cholesterol and triglycerides. This research is important since rapid socio-cultural changes take place in all "traditional" societies in the contemporary world. Understanding how human populations respond biologically to the social stress that rapid change induces will help us understand the course of human social and biological evolution.