Investigating associations between rural-to-urban migration and cardiometabolic disease in Malawi: a population-level study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The extent to which rural-to-urban migration affects risk for cardiometabolic diseases (CMD) in Africa is not well understood. We investigated prevalence and risk for obesity, diabetes, hypertension and precursor conditions by migration status.

Methods

In a cross-sectional survey in Malawi (February 2013-March 2017), 13 903 rural, 9929 rural-to-urban migrant and 6741 urban residents (≥18 years old) participated. We interviewed participants, measured blood pressure and collected anthropometric data and fasting blood samples to estimate population prevalences and odds ratios, using negative binomial regression, for CMD, by migration status. In a sub-cohort of 131 rural-urban siblings-sets, migration-associated CMD risk was explored using conditional Poisson regressi

SUBMITTER: Chilunga FP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6929524 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature