Reasons for Declining Consent in a Population-Based Cohort Study Conducted in a Rural South American Community

Table 1

Characteristics of participants who declined the consent versus those who continued in the cohort.

	Declined consent (n = 54)	Continued in the cohort (n = 809)	value
Mean age, years ± SD	62.9 ± 12.2	60.4 ± 13.4	0.182
Women, n (%)	26 (48.1)	442 (54.8)	0.892
Primary school education, n (%)	34 (63)	471 (58.2)	0.469
Stroke or severely disabled, n (%)	1 (1.9)	48 (5.9)	0.357