Cohort Profile: The PERU MIGRANT Study–A prospective cohort study of rural dwellers, urban dwellers and rural-to-urban migrants in Peru,International Journal of Epidemiology

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Cohort Profile: The PERU MIGRANT Study–A prospective cohort study of rural dwellers, urban dwellers and rural-to-urban migrants in Peru
International Journal of Epidemiology ( IF 7.7 ) Pub Date : 2017-07-25 , DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx116
Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco ₁ , Andrea Ruiz-Alejos ₁ , Antonio Bernabé-Ortiz _{1,

2} , Robert H Gilman _{1,

3} , Liam Smeeth ₂ , J Jaime Miranda _{1,

4}

Affiliation

Infectious diseases are still a major concern in developing countries, causing up to 60% of the deaths in low-income countries. However, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and their associated risk factors are becoming a major public health issue in the developing world where between 38% (low-income) and 80% (upper middle-income) of deaths are attributable to NCDs.¹^,² Major common risk factors include raised blood pressure, elevated blood glucose, obesity, low physical activity, unhealthy diet habits, smoking and alcohol consumption. Many risks are associated with lifestyle and have rapidly changed over recent decades, some driven by urbanization.³^,⁴

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