PHD Progress Of Disease In Prediabetic And Prehypertensive Patients In Malawi: Assessment Of Risk Factors And Complications 2017-18 (Karonga and Lilongwe combined analytical dataset)

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MWI-MEIRU-combined-PHD-data-v01

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Combined / Harmonized Datasets Karonga HDSS Lilongwe HDSS

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MWI-MEIRU-combined-PHD-data-v01

Title

PHD Progress Of Disease In Prediabetic And Prehypertensive Patients In Malawi: Assessment Of Risk Factors And Complications 2017-18 (Karonga and Lilongwe combined analytical dataset)

Country

Name
Malawi

Abstract

The do-file combine_PHD_data brings together all the data from the PHD study (which ran in 2018/2019) to have one record per person, including their baseline NCD data. The tables used are listed below:

gen_identity_clean / genl_identity_clean Identity data (Karonga / Lilongwe)
NCD_combined_data_all_final Baseline data from the initial NCD survey (Karonga & Lilongwe combined)
phdk_consent / phdl_consent Data from PHD consent form (Karonga / Lilongwe)
phdk_fieldlog / phdl_fieldlog Data from PHD field log (Karonga / Lilongwe)
phdk_hsbc / phdl_hsbc Hand grip and bioimpedance data from PHD (Karonga / Lilongwe)
phdk_phdq / phdl_phdq Data from PHD questionnaire (Karonga / Lilongwe)
ser_electrolytes / lab_electrolytes Electrolyte (urine & serum) test result data (Karonga / Lilongwe)
ser_glucose / lab_glucose Glucose test results data (Karonga / Lilongwe)
ser_hba1c / lab_hba1c HBA1c test results data (Karonga / Lilongwe)
ser_lipids / lab_lipids Lipids test results data (Karonga / Lilongwe)
ser_specimen / lab_specimen Data on all lab specimens (Karonga / Lilongwe)

Unit of Analysis

Individual

Version

Version Date

2020-07-10

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Karonga and Lilongwe

Data collection

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Access policy

Archive where study is originally stored

MEIRU

Data Access

Access conditions

This data is made available for licensed access under the following conditions:

Data and other material provided by MEIRU will not be redistributed or sold to other individuals, institutions or organisations without MEIRU's written agreement.
In the case of multi-centre datasets, data originating from a single contributing member centre of the collaboration may not be analysed or reported on in isolation without the express permission of the member centre concerned.
No attempt will be made to re-identify respondents, and there will be no use of the identity of any person or establishment discovered inadvertently. Any such discovery will be reported immediately to MEIRU.
No attempt will be made to produce links between datasets provided by MEIRU or between MEIRU data and other datasets that could identify individuals.
Any books, articles, conference papers, theses, dissertations, reports or other publications employing data obtained from MEIRU will cite the source, in line with the citation requirement provided with the dataset.
An electronic copy of all publications based on the requested data will be sent to MEIRU.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI-MWI-MEIRU-combined-PHD-data-v01

Producers

Name	Abbreviation	Affiliation	Role
Themba Chirwa	TC	MEIRU	Metadata entry and editing Officer
Elizabeth Munthali	EM	MEIRU	Metadata Supervisor
Chifundo Kanjala	CK	MEIRU	Data Documentation project management
Estelle McLean	EM	LSHTM and MEIRU	Production of the documentation used to create this DDI document
Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit	MEIRU		Agency

Date of Metadata Production

2020-07-10

Metadata version

DDI Document version

version 1 (July 2020)

Version notes

v1: Edited data, first version, for internal use only

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