South Asian Problem: AKU researchers to study hypertension

KARACHI: The Aga Khan University’s department of community health sciences and other international collaborators have received an award to study ways to lower hypertension in adults living in rural South Asia. The study will test low-cost strategies by health workers and doctors to lower blood pressure among adults and reduce the risk of heart disease in three key countries - Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - where hypertension is a rapidly growing problem. The trial, called Control of Blood Pressure and Risk Attenuation - Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, led by principal investigator Professor Tazeen Jafar of the Duke-National University of Singapore graduate medical school, will study 2,500 individuals in 30 rural communities over three years.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 9^th, 2016.