The study of cardiovascular risk in adolescents – ERICA: rationale, design and sample characteristics of a national survey examining cardiovascular risk factor profile in Brazilian adolescents

Vergetti Bloch, Kátia; Szklo, Moysés; Cristina Caetano Kuschnir, Maria; de Azevedo Abreu, Gabriela; Augusta Barufaldi, Laura; Henrique Klein, Carlos; TL de Vasconcelos, Maurício; Valéria da Veiga, Glória; Carvalho Figueiredo, Valeska; Días, Adriano; Júlia Pantoja de Moraes, Ana; Luiza Lima Souza, Ana; Mayra Andrade de Oliveira, Ana; D. Schaan, Beatriz; Mendes Tavares, Bruno; Lacroix de Oliveira, Cecília; de Freitas Cunha, Cristiane; Tavares Giannini, Denise; Rodrigues Belfort, Dilson; Lopes Barboza Ribas, Dulce; Lima Santos, Eduardo; Brosina de Leon, Elisa; Fujimori, Elizabeth; Regina Araújo de Oliveira, Elizabete; da Silva Magliano, Erika; de Assis Guedes de Vasconcelos, Francisco; Dantas Azevedo, George; Soares Brunken, Gisela; Monteiro Dias, Glauber; Rodrigues Corrêa Filho, Heleno; Inês Monteiro, Maria; Cristina Britto Guimarães, Isabel; Rocha Faria‐Neto, José; Souza Oliveira, Juliana; Mara Baiocchi de Carvalho, Kênia; Gonzaga de Oliveira Gonçalves, Luis; M Santos, Marize; Torres Muniz, Pascoal; César Brandão Veiga Jardim, Paulo; Antônio Muniz Ferreira, Pedro; Magalhães Montenegro, Renan; Queiroz Gurgel, Ricardo; Pinheiro de Tolêdo Vianna, Rodrigo; Mary Vasconcelos, Sandra; Silva da Matta, Sandro; Maris Seixas Martins, Stella; Beres Lederer Goldberg, Tamara; Luiz Nogueira da Silva, Thiago

doi:10.1186/s12889-015-1442-x

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The study of cardiovascular risk in adolescents – ERICA: rationale, design and sample characteristics of a national survey examining cardiovascular risk factor profile in Brazilian adolescents

Published in BMC Public Health • Feb 5, 2015

Authors:

Kátia Vergetti Bloch

Moysés Szklo

Maria Cristina Caetano Kuschnir

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Study of Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescents (Portuguese acronym, "ERICA") is a multicenter, school-based country-wide cross-sectional study funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, which aims at estimating the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, including those included in ...

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Biostatistics

Medicine

Environmental health

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