title: The Mamprobi Survey--a screening survey for cardiovascular disease and risk factors in Africa: methodology and validity.
abstract: The Mamprobi Survey is a cardiovascular disease prevalence sample survey in an African community in Ghana. This preliminary paper describes its methodology and validity. Response rate corrected for migration from the area was 73%. Subsequent sampling of non-respondents revealed only trivial reasons for non-attendance and only minor differences in health status, suggesting that estimates of disease prevalence by the survey were likely to be accurate.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005869:Ghana; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012306:Risk