Spatial distribution of the risk for metabolic complications: an application in south-east Brazil, 2006-2007.

Objective: To identify spatial variation in the risk for metabolic complications (RMC) by means of a semi-parametric approach for multinomial data.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: We visited 730 households selected in the first of a two-stage sample in South health district in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, 2006-2007.