Social Environment and Physiologic Adjustment in a Developing Society

该项目支持一位人类学家在巴西西南部对影响成年人高血压发病率的社会、种族和饮食因素进行研究。将对150个家庭进行调查，并进行生物测试，评估心血管和代谢对压力的反应。这一假设假设，在快速变化的社会环境中，由于社会和种族生活方式的不协调，遇到高压力的人会患高血压，总胆固醇和甘油三酯也会高。这项研究很重要，因为在当代世界的所有“传统”社会中都发生了快速的社会文化变化。了解人类群体如何对快速变化引起的社会压力做出生物反应，将有助于我们理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.