OBJECTIVE: Interethnic marriage between nikkey Brazilians and non-nikkey Brazilians may favor the westernization of diet. Dietary consumption, clinical data and frequencies of metabolic diseases were compared in a Japanese-Brazilian population, with intraethnic or interethnic marriage. METHODS: T test, Mann-Whitney, chi-square and Person coefficient were used. RESULTS: Among 1009 Japanese-Brazilians there were 18.9% of interethnic marriage, being more frequent among nikkey men. These showed higher means of BMI, waist, blood pressure, glycemia and triglyceridemia than women. Overall frequencies of obesity, hypertrigliceridemia […]

Migrant populations represent a good opportunity to investigate the role of environmental factors for the genesis of obesity and its comorbidities. The Japanese-Brazilian Diabetes Study Group studied the prevalence of diabetes and related disorders in Japanese-Brazilians from Bauru, SP, in 1993. Using specific criteria for Asian, 22.4% of the Japanese-Brazilians were found as having overweight in this first phase of the study. In the second phase, in 2000, this prevalence increased to 44.2% and 50.3% had central obesity. This population also […]