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Health and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Slums.

NCT03734939 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 2265

Last updated 2021-07-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Cardiovascular risk factors and disease burden has been showed to affect more deeply to poorer populations. People who live in slums are the most vulnerable subgroup in the populations where, paradoxically scarcity of data exists on risk factors and cardiovascular disease burden.

Our study aim to describe the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular disease burden in a representative sample of an urban slum of Buenos Aires city, using validated questions from the National Risk Factors Survey (edition 2013). Also, the investigators will measure blood pressure and cardiac rate to all study participants.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

None intervention is planned.

None intervention is planned, just a survey.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Escuela de Psicología Social Pichon Riviere

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Corriente Salvador Maza

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Fundacion GESICA

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Javier Mariani, MD · Fundación GESICA

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-11-07
Primary Completion
2022-12-01
Completion
2022-12-20

Countries

  • Argentina

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Diseases

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