This is an update of a prior dataset publication containing baseline and 5-year follow-up data from the PERU MIGRANT Study (PEru's Rural to Urban MIGRANTs Study).
The PERU MIGRANT Study was designed to investigate the magnitude of differences between rural-to-urban migrant and non-migrant groups in specific cardiovascular risk factors. Three groups were selected: i) Rural, people who have always have lived in a rural environment; ii) Rural-urban, people who migrated from rural to urban areas; and, iii) Urban, people who have always lived in a urban environment.
PERU MIGRANT Study protocol, instruments and variables are described in full in:
Miranda JJ, Gilman RH, García HH, Smeeth L. The effect on cardiovascular risk factors of migration from rural to urban areas in Peru: PERU MIGRANT Study. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2009;9:23.
PERU MIGRANT Study baseline dataset is available at:
Miranda JJ, Gilman RH, Smeeth L. Differences in cardiovascular risk factors in rural, urban and rural-to-urban migrants in Peru. Heart 2011;97(10):787-96.
Main findings of the 5-yr follow-up study:
Carrillo-Larco RM, Bernabé-Ortiz A, Pillay TD, Gilman RH, Sanchez JF, Poterico JA, Quispe R, Smeeth L, Miranda JJ. Obesity risk in rural, urban and rural-to-urban migrants: prospective results of the PERU MIGRANT study. Int J Obes (Lond) 2016;40(1):181-5.
Bernabe-Ortiz A, Sanchez JF, Carrillo-Larco RM, Gilman RH, Poterico JA, Quispe R, Smeeth L, Miranda JJ. Rural-to-urban migration and risk of hypertension: longitudinal results of the PERU MIGRANT study. J Hum Hypertens 2017;31(1):22-28.
Lazo-Porras M, Bernabe-Ortiz A, Málaga G, Gilman RH, Acuña-Villaorduña A, Cardenas-Montero D, Smeeth L, Miranda JJ. Low HDL cholesterol as a cardiovascular risk factor in rural, urban, and rural-urban migrants: PERU MIGRANT cohort study. Atherosclerosis 2016;246:36-43.
Burroughs Pena MS, Bernabé-Ortiz A, Carrillo-Larco RM, Sánchez JF, Quispe R, Pillay TD, Málaga G, Gilman RH, Smeeth L, Miranda JJ. Migration, urbanisation and mortality: 5-year longitudinal analysis of the PERU MIGRANT study. J Epidemiol Community Health 2015;69(7):715-8.
Funding
Wellcome Trust, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia