Venezuelan Study of Cardiometabolic Health (EVESCAM)
Principal Investigators: Ramfis Nieto Martínez and María Ínes Marulanda
Design and Implementation
The EVESCAM study was a the first national representative, population-based, observational, cross-sectional, and cluster sampling study, designed to evaluate cardiometabolic risk factors among subjects aged ≥ 20 years in Venezuela from July 2014 to January 2017.
The aim was to determine the prevalence of cardio-metabolic risk factors in adults in a national sample of Venezuela.
Funded by: Novartis and Private Donations
Publications
Cardiometabolic risk factors in Venezuela. The EVESCAM study: a national cross-sectional survey in adults.
Ramfis Nieto-Martínez, Juan P. González-Rivas, Eunice Ugel, Maritza Duran, Eric Dávila, Ramez Constantino, Alberto García, Jeffrey I. Mechanick, María Inés Marulanda
Prim Care Diabetes. 2021 Feb;15(1):106-114. doi: 10.1016/j.pcd.2020.07.006. Epub 2020 Aug 5
Dietary intake and cardiometabolic risk factors among Venezuelan adults: a nationally representative analysis
Dina Goodman, Juan P. González-Rivas, Lindsay M. Jaacks, Maritza Duran, María Inés Marulanda, Eunice Ugel, Josiemer Mattei, Jorge E. Chavarro & Ramfis Nieto-Martinez.
BMC Nutr 6, 61 (2020)
Optimal waist circumference cutoff values to predict cardiometabolic alterations in a Venezuela national representative sample. The EVESCAM study
Juan P. González-Rivas, Jeffrey I. Mechanick, Rocio Iglesias-Fortes, Diana De Oliveira-Gomes3, Jesús Silva, José Valencia, Estherbany Figueroa, Maritza Duran, Eunice Ugel, María M. Infante-García, María Inés Marulanda, Ramfis Nieto-Martínez
Arch Cardiol Mex 2020 Dec 23. DOI: 10.24875/ACM.20000165