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Setting Up The Longitudinal Study For Adult Health (Elsa-Brasil), Paulo A. Lotufo
Setting Up The Longitudinal Study For Adult Health (Elsa-Brasil), Paulo A. Lotufo
Paulo A Lotufo
Baseline data collection of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study for Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) was complete by December 2010. A cohort of 15,105 subjects has been followed up on incident events at six study sites for three years. The ELSA-Brasil is remarkable for its large sample size and wide variety of data collected to investigate biological and social determinants of cardiovascular diseases and diabetes mellitus in adults in Brazil. A group of Brazilian experts in chronic noncommunicable disease research started planning this study project in 2004. It was launched at a meeting on August 20 to 21, 2004 held at the Universidade …