Impact of the social context on the prognosis of Chagas disease patients: Multilevel analysis of a Brazilian cohort.

• Main Authors: Ariela Mota Ferreira (Author), Éster Cerdeira Sabino (Author), Lea Campos de Oliveira (Author), Cláudia Di Lorenzo Oliveira (Author), Clareci Silva Cardoso (Author), Antônio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro (Author), Renata Fiúza Damasceno (Author), Maria do Carmo Pereira Nunes (Author), Desirée Sant' Ana Haikal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The present study aims to investigate how the social context contributes to the prognosis of Chagas disease (CD). This is a multilevel study that considered individual and contextual data. Individual data came from a Brazilian cohort study that followed 1,637 patients who lived in 21 municipalities...