Sites of study execution and coordination

All 24 regional representatives of SBC/Board of Cardiovascular Health Prevention (FUNCOR) were invited to participate in the group of researchers working in this project. Of these, 15 accepted the invitation and, together with three other invited centers [Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia (IDPC), Liga de Hipertensão Arterial da Universidade Federal de Goiás (LHA/UFG), and Unidade de Hipertensão da Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro], totaled 18 research centers that were effectively included in the group of investigators and coinvestigators who collected data from May to October 2017.

Data collection was conducted in the following states: Bahia, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, São Paulo, and Tocantins.

The entire work was coordinated by the Board of SBC/FUNCOR, together with the university institutions IDPC and LHA/UFG.