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Sources of Funding This study was funded by Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo , FAPESP, process no. 2013/11057-3 and process no. 2016/08758-8. Study Association This article is part of the thesis of Doctoral submitted by Carolina Vieira de Mello Barros Pimentel, from Faculdade de Saúde Pública da Universidade de São Paulo . Ethics approval and consent to participate This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Universidade de São Paulo – Faculdade de Saúde Pública under the protocol number 2260. All the procedures in this study were in accordance with the 1975 Helsinki Declaration, updated in 2013. Informed consent was obtained from all participants included in the study.