Study protocol
The effect on cardiovascular risk factors of migration from rural to urban areas in Peru: PERU MIGRANT Study
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* Corresponding author: J Jaime Miranda Jaime.Miranda@lshtm.ac.uk
1 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
2 Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
3 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
4 Unidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Parasitarias del Sistema Nervioso Department of Microbiology, School of Sciences, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
5 Área de Investigación y Desarrollo, A. B. PRISMA, Lima, Peru
6 Unidad de Cisticercosis, Departamento de Enfermedades Transmisibles y Neuropediatría, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Neurológicas, Lima, Peru
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2009, 9:23 doi:10.1186/1471-2261-9-23
Published: 8 June 2009Additional files
Additional file 1:
PERU MIGRANT Study questionnaire. Instruments used for data collection, as summarised in Table 1.
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Additional file 2:
Spanish information sheet and consent form. Spanish informed consent form used in the PERU MIGRANT Study.
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English information sheet and consent form. English translation of the informed consent form used in the PERU MIGRANT Study.
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Additional file 4:
Characteristics of responders versus non-responders by study group. Comparison between those who refused (non-responders) and those who completed the study (responders) in terms of current socioeconomic status, CVD risk profile and migration history.
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