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Epidemiologia e prevenzione delle malattie cerebro e cardiovascolari

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Collaboration

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) is a network of health scientists around the world that provides rigorous and timely data on risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) for 200 countries and territories. The group works closely with the World Health Organisation (WHO), through the WHO Collaborating Centre on NCD Surveillance and Epidemiology at Imperial College London. NCD-RisC pools high-quality population-based data using advanced statistical methods, designed specifically for analysing NCD risk factors. The Collaboration currently has data from over 2,545 population-based surveys from 193 countries since 1957, with nearly 129 million participants whose risk factor levels have been measured.

 

NCD-RisC is coordinated by the WHO Collaborating Centre on NCD Surveillance and Epidemiology at Imperial College London, and by its Director, Professor Majid Ezzati. NCD-RisC members are researchers and practitioners from a variety of fields and disciplines who re-analyse specific population-based data that are eventually included in the Collaboration’s pooling analyses. They come from all regions of the world, and are indicated on the map below by country of their primary institution. Core funding for the NCD-RisC database is provided by the Wellcome Trust. Work on children and adolescents is funded by a charitable grant from the AstraZeneca Young Health Programme.

 

The country statistics available relate to body mass index, height, diabetes and blood pressure, as well as the aggregation of multiple risk factors. The CUORE Project participates in the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration with the cohorts: FINE, MATISS, Osservatorio Epidemiologico Cardiovascolare 1998-2002 e Osservatorio Epidemiologico Cardiovascolare/Health Examination Survey 2008-2012.

 

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