National Survey of Morbidity and Risk Factors (EMENO): Protocol for a Health Examination Survey Representative of the Adult Greek Population

Giota Touloumi   ¹ , PhD ;   Anna Karakatsani   ² , MD, PhD ;   Argiro Karakosta   ¹ , PhD ;   Eleni Sofianopoulou   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Panagiotis Koustenis   ⁴ , PhD ;   Magda Gavana   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Yannis Alamanos   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Maria Kantzanou   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   George Konstantakopoulos   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Xenia Chryssochoou   ⁸ , PhD ;   Alexis Benos   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Apostolos Vantarakis   ⁹ , PhD ;   Christos Hadjichristodoulou   ¹⁰ , MD, PhD ;   Gregory Chlouverakis   ¹¹ , MD, PhD ;   Gregory Trypsianis   ¹² , PhD ;   Paraskevi V Voulgari   ¹³ , MD, PhD ;   Konstantinos Makrilakis   ^{14, 15} , MD, PhD ;   Stavros Liatis   ^{14, 15} , MD, PhD ;   George Stergiou   ¹⁶ , MD, PhD ;   EMENO Study Group   ¹

¹ Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

² Second Pulmonary Department, “Attikon” University Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

³ Department of Public Health and Primary Care, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

⁴ Department of Political Science and History, School of Political Science, Panteion University of Social and Political Science, Athens, Greece

⁵ Department of Primary Health Care, General Practice and Health Services Research, Medical School, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

⁶ Institute of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Corfu, Greece

⁷ First Department of Psychiatry, Eginition Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

⁸ Department of Psychology, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences, Athens, Greece

⁹ Environmental Microbiology Unit, Department of Public Health, Medical School, University of Patras, Patra, Greece

¹⁰ Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Medical Faculty, University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece

¹¹ Laboratory of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Crete, Greece

¹² Laboratory of Medical Statistics, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Thrace, Greece

¹³ Rheumatology Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

¹⁴ Hellenic Diabetes Association, Athens, Greece

¹⁵ First Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

¹⁶ Hypertension Center STRIDE-7, Third Department of Medicine, Sotiria Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece