Tracks heart and metabolic health in adults across Puerto Rico over time
Follows adults aged 30 to 75 in Puerto Rico to study heart and metabolic health.
Plain-language title generated from the registry record
Registry title: Psychosocial, Environmental, and Chronic Disease Trends in Puerto Rico
Key facts
- Where
- San Juan, Puerto RicoSee the site
Could this be for you?
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 30 and 75 years old?
Source: NCT03794531, who can take part
Where in Puerto Rico
- Puerto Rico Consortium for Clinical InvestigationSan Juan, Puerto RicoTaking people
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Trial details
- Who runs it
- Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
- Trial code
- NCT03794531
- Record updated
- 5 May 2026
- Original description
The overall goal is to identify trends and longitudinal associations in psychosocial, food-related, and cardiometabolic risk factors that can guide public health priorities and future research needs aimed at reducing cardiovascular-related disparities in Puerto Rico. To this end, investigators will establish 'PROSPECT: Puerto Rico Observational Study of Psychosocial, Environmental, and Chronic disease Trends', an island-wide, longitudinal population cohort of 2,500 adults (30-75 years) in PR recruited with a community-wide sampling strategy, and assessed in a network of several partner clinics across the island. The study will collect comprehensive data on multiple psychosocial, dietary, and food-related factors, CVD biological markers, and medical record data, with follow-up at 2-years, and will assess variations by urban-rural area and by timing before-after Maria.Read full original descriptionShow less
Puerto Rico Observational Study of Psychosocial, Environmental, and Chronic Disease Trends
The overall goal is to identify trends and longitudinal associations in psychosocial, food-related, and cardiometabolic risk factors that can guide public health priorities and future research needs aimed at reducing cardiovascular-related disparities in Puerto Rico. To this end, investigators will establish 'PROSPECT: Puerto Rico Observational Study of Psychosocial, Environmental, and Chronic disease Trends', an island-wide, longitudinal population cohort of 2,500 adults (30-75 years) in PR recruited with a community-wide sampling strategy, and assessed in a network of several partner clinics across the island. The study will collect comprehensive data on multiple psychosocial, dietary, and food-related factors, CVD biological markers, and medical record data, with follow-up at 2-years, and will assess variations by urban-rural area and by timing before-after Maria.
Inclusion: Age 30-75 years old at the time of enrollment; Non-institutionalized; Living in PR at the time of the first interview and the year before and not planning to move from the island within 3 years; Able to answer questions without assistance; Living in a stable dwelling.