Lead Sponsor

Alliance For Medical Research in Africa

Collaborators

Age

18 - No limit years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

•We included cross-sectional surveys and longitudinal population-based studies providing individual-level data on established noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors, including body-mass index, systolic blood pressure, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, current smoking status, and diabetes mellitus, together with information on predefined NCD outcomes of interest (including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and other major NCDs). For longitudinal studies, prospective ascertainment of incident events and mortality was required.

•Participants were excluded if they were younger than 18 years at the time of assessment, had missing data on the outcome of interest, had no available information on the exposure variables (NCD risk factors), or, for longitudinal analyses, had a documented history of the respective NCD outcome at baseline.