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Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2009 Feb 24;33(5):568–576. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2009.35

Table 1.

Characteristics of the health surveys from the Latin-American Consortium of Studies in Obesity and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Health survey	Location	Year(s)	Sample size	Mean age (years)
Encuesta Nacional de Salud¹²	Chile^a	2003	2590	51.5
CARMEN¹³	Colombia, Bogotá^b	2001	642	44.4
CARMEN⁴	Colombia, Bucaramanga^b	2001	1874	43.1
EFRICARD¹⁴	Dominican Republic^c	1998	5206	49.3
ENINBSC-ECNT¹⁵	Perú^a	2005	3037	46.6
PREVENCION¹⁶	Perú, Arequipa^b	2004-2006	1400	51.5
Metabolic syndrome in San Juan¹⁷	Puerto Rico^b	2005-2007	699	52.3
The Zulia CHD risk-factor study¹⁸	Venezuela, Zulia^d	1999-2001	3527	47.8
NHANES III¹⁹	United States^a	1988-1994	10 878	47.8
NHANES 1999-2004²⁰	United States^a	1999-2004	9086	48.4

Abbreviation: CHD, coronary heart disease.

National survey.

City survey.

National survey urban population.

State survey.