General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7.5 million participants

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) Code and Data Sharing

This repository contains code and data used in the paper "General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7.5 million participants" [1].

Contents Guide

• Survey_metadata_Lancet2024.xlsx   The list of data sources used in the study, together with contact information for data access.
• Mixed_effects_models_Lancet2024.R   R code for the mixed effects model for the association between waist-to-height ratio and body-mass index and for the mixed effects model for the prediction of hypertension status using waist-to-height ratio or body-mass index or both. See methods section of the publication [1] for details.

Contact

• For more information about the paper or the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration, please see www.ncdrisc.org or contact ncdrisc@imperial.ac.uk.

Reference

1. NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7.5 million participants. Lancet 2024; 404:851-863.