Impact of common cardio-metabolic risk factors on fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular disease in Latin America and the Caribbean: an individual-level pooled analysis of 31 cohort studies

• Main Authors: Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco (Author), Dalia Stern (Author), Ian R. Hambleton (Author), Anselm Hennis (Author), Mariachiara Di Cesare (Author), Paulo Lotufo (Author), Catterina Ferreccio (Author), Vilma Irazola (Author), Pablo Perel (Author), Edward W Gregg (Author), J. Jaime Miranda (Author), Majid Ezzati (Author), Goodarz Danaei (Author), Carlos A Aguilar-Salinas (Author), Ramón Alvarez-Váz (Author), Marselle B Amadio (Author), Cecilia Baccino (Author), Claudia Bambs (Author), João Luiz Bastos (Author), Gloria Beckles (Author), Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz (Author), Carla DO Bernardo (Author), Katia V. Bloch (Author), Juan E. Blümel (Author), Jose G. Boggia (Author), Pollyanna K. Borges (Author), Miguel Bravo (Author), Gilbert Brenes-Camacho (Author), Horacio A Carbajal (Author), Maria S. Castillo Rascon (Author), Blanca H. Ceballos (Author), Veronica Colpani (Author), Jackie A Cooper (Author), Sandra Cortes (Author), Adrian Cortes-Valencia (Author), Roberto S Cunha (Author), Eleonora d'Orsi (Author), William H Dow (Author), Walter G Espeche (Author), Flavio D. Fuchs (Author), Sandra C. Fuchs (Author), Suely GA Gimeno (Author), Donaji Gomez-Velasco (Author), David A Gonzalez-Chica (Author), Clicerio Gonzalez-Villalpando (Author), María-Elena Go (Author), Gonzalo Grazioli (Author), Ricardo O. Guerra (Author), Laura Gutierrez (Author), Fernando L Herkenhoff (Author), Andrea RVR Horimoto (Author), Andrea Huidobro (Author), Elard Koch (Author), Martin Lajous (Author), Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa (Author), Ruy Lopez-Ridaura (Author), Alvaro CC Maciel (Author), Betty S Manrique-Espinoza (Author), Larissa P Marques (Author), Jose G Mill (Author), Leila B Moreira (Author), Oscar M Muñoz (Author), Lariane M Ono (Author), Karen Oppermann (Author), Karina M. Paiva (Author), Sergio V. Peixoto (Author), Alexandre C. Pereira (Author), Karen G. Peres (Author), Marco A. Peres (Author), Paula Ramírez-Palacios (Author), Cassiano R Rech (Author), Berenice Rivera-Paredez (Author), Nohora I Rodriguez (Author), Rosalba Rojas-Martinez (Author), Luis Rosero-Bixby (Author), Adolfo Rubinstein (Author), Alvaro Ruiz-Morales (Author), Martin R Salazar (Author), Aaron Salinas-Rodriguez (Author), Jorge Salmerón (Author), Ramon A Sanchez (Author), Nelson AS Silva (Author), Thiago LN Silva (Author), Liam Smeeth (Author), Poli M Spritzer (Author), Fiorella Tartaglione (Author), Jorge Tartaglione (Author), Rafael Velázquez-Cruz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT: Background: Estimates of the burden of cardio-metabolic risk factors in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) rely on relative risks (RRs) from non-LAC countries. Whether these RRs apply to LAC remains unknown. Methods: We pooled LAC cohorts. We estimated RRs per unit of exposure to body m...