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Latin American Studies Consortium in Obesity (LASO)
The
Population Health M.S.\Ph.D Program at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Overview
Obesity is a
progressively increasing public health problem in Latin America. The
large impact of obesity on the health of the population results from its
high prevalence and its strong association with the incidence of
cardiovascular diseases and other chronic diseases. In spite of the
burden of obesity, efforts to quantify its frequency, identify its
individual and population determinants, and establish its impact on the
incidence of cardiovascular diseases in Latin America have been limited.
The goal of the Latin American Studies Consortium in Obesity (LASO) is
to generate a framework to stimulate and strengthen the level of
communication, knowledge transfer, and data sharing among investigators
with interest in Latin America. LASO’s purpose is to efficiently
contribute to the characterization of the frequency and determinants of
obesity and its association with cardiovascular diseases in the Latin
American population.
LASO’s main strategy is the systematic integration of data from
population studies of obesity and cardiovascular risk factors in Latin
America. Pooling studies from different countries and populations will
allow us to obtain updated and precise estimates of the prevalence of
obesity, its determinants and its impact on population health. This will
be helpful in designing and proposing effective prevention strategies.
Objectives
- To determine the prevalence
and distribution of obesity by sociodemographic characteristics in the
Latin American population.
- Identify ethnic, socioeconomic, nutritional and behavioral factors
associated with the incidence of obesity:
- Estimate the strength of the association between obesity and classical
cardiovascular risk factors, such as hypertension, hypercholesterolemia,
and diabetes in the Latin American population.
- Establish what measures of obesity (i.e. body mass index, waist
circumference, waist to hip ratio) best predict the risk of
cardiovascular disease in the Latin American population.
List of
studies include in LASO up to August 2007
Participation in Scientific Meetings
Publications
Coordinating Center
Principal
Investigators
Leonelo E. Bautista, MD, DrPH
Juan P. Casas, MD
Assistant
Professor
Clinical Lecturer in Epidemiology
Department of
Population Health Sciences
London School of Hygiene and
University of
Wisconsin Tropical
Medicine
610 Walnut
Street Keppel
Street, London WC1E 7HT
Madison, WI United
States United Kingdom
lebautista@wisc.edu Juan.Pablo-Casas@lshtm.ac.uk
Tel:
(608)265-6176 Tel:
(44) 207 927 2163
Fax:
(608)263-2120 Fax:
(44) 207 580 6897
Collaborators
Víctor M. Herrera,
MD Liam Smeeth,
MRCGP, MSc, PhD.
University of
Wisconsin London
School of Hygiene
Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
vherrera@wisc.edu
Liam.smeeth@lshtm.ac.uk
Pablo Perel,
MD, MSc Jaime
Miranda, MD, MSc
Research
Fellow Wellcome
Trust Research Fellow
pablo.perel@lshtm.ac.uk Jaime.Miranda@lshtm.ac.uk
Participant Researchers
Argentina
Norberto
Schapochnik
Daniel Ferrante
Ministerio de Salud de
la Provincia de Programa
VIGILANCIA,
Tierra del Fuego
Ministerio
de Salud y Ambiente
noby02@hotmail.com
dferrante@intramed.net.ar
Zulma
Ortiz
Instituto de Investigaciones Epidemiológicas
Academia
Nacional de Medicina
Buenos
Aires
zortiz@arnet.com.ar
Chile
Encuesta Nacional de
Salud Estudio
Empleados Sector Servicio
Ximena
Aguilera Fernando
Tomas Lanas Zanetti
Ministerio de Salud de
Chile
Universidad de la Frontera
xaguiler@minsal.gov.cl flanas@ufro.cl
Catterina Ferreccio José
Antonio del Solar
Pontificia Universidad
Católica Mutual de
Seguridad, Santiago
cferrec@med.puc.cl
Colombia
Luis Fernando Gómez G.
Fundación FES Social.
lfgomez@fundacionfes.org
Myriam
Orostegui Arenas
Universidad Industrial de Santander
Centro de Investigaciones Epidemiológicas
ciepi_uis@hotmail.com
Costa Rica
Luis
Rosero Bixby
Director,
Centro Centroamericano de Población,
Universidad de Costa Rica
lrosero@ccp.ucr.ac.cr
Dominican Republic
Rafael Pichardo
Angel González
Director,
Instituto Dominicano de Cardiología
Instituto Dominicano de Cardiología
cardioidc@verizon.net.do
Mexico
Beatriz Diaz-Apodaca
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad de Juárez
Departamento de Epidemiología
beatriz.diaz-apodaca@lshtm.ac.uk
Peru
PREVENCION
study
ENINBSC-ECNT-2005-PERU
study
Julio
A. Chirinos, MD
Jose
Sánchez
University of Miami School of Medicine
Centro Nacional de
Alimentación y
JChirinos@med.miami.edu
Nutrición,
Instituto Nacional de
Salud,
Lima, Perú
jrsancheza@yahoo.com
Jaime
Miranda, MD
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow
Lima,
Perú
mirandajj@gmail.com
Puerto Rico
Cynthia M. Pérez,
PhD
Ana Patricia Ortiz, PhD
University of Puerto
Rico
University of Puerto Rico
cperez@rcm.upr.edu
aportiz@rcm.upr.edu
Erick Suárez, PhD
University of Puerto
Rico
esuarez@rcm.upr.edu
Uruguay
Margarita Díaz, MD,
Centro de
Investigación Médica Académica,
Montevideo
Comité de Salud
Pública de la Sociedad
Latinoamericana de
Hipertensión
madiyo@yahoo.com
Venezuela
Eglé Silva
Instituto Regional de Investigación y
Estudios de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares.
Universidad del Zulia.
cectasprofb@cantv.net
