Study overview
Overview
- Study title
- The Rishi Valley Prospective Cohort Study
- Participants enrolled
- 7,935
- Lead institute
- Monash University
- Principal investigator (PI)
- Amanda Thrift (Monash University)
- Principal investigator profile
- Open profile
- Study design
- Prospective
- Location
- Karnataka (Chittoor)
- Single / multiple sites
- Single Site
- Key highlights
- The study aims to identify both traditional risk factors (hypertension, diabetes, central obesity) and non-traditional factors (night sleeping hours and number of children) significantly contribute to cardiovascular events in rural India.
- Reference paper 1
- https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13981
Insights & criteria
Insights
- Exclusion criteria
- Prior cardiovascular disease
- Socio‑demographic / economic
- Rural Setting
- Recruitment and timeline
- 2012-2015
- Follow‑up
- Follow-up (2019-2020)
- Keywords
- Cardiovascular Disease, Epidemiology
Details
Details
- Gender
- Men & Women
- Scope
- National
- Category
- Adult and Aging Cohort