Background. Community-based health workers (CBHWs) are frontline public health workers
who are trusted members of the community they serve. Recently, considerable attention has …

Data from different national and regional surveys show that hypertension is common in
developing countries, particularly in urban areas, and that rates of awareness, treatment …

The Global Heart/World Heart Federation 1990-2010 Global Atlas of Cardiovascular
Disease (CVD) charted the transition from a global burden of disease dominated by …

Background The burden of hypertension is escalating, and control rates are poor in low-and
middle-income countries. Cardiovascular mortality is high in rural areas. Methods We …

Background The prevalence of uncontrolled hypertension is high and increasing in low-
income and middle-income countries. We tested the effectiveness of a multifaceted …

Chronic kidney disease is a general term for heterogeneous disorders affecting kidney
structure and function. The 2002 guidelines for definition and classification of this disease …

Background: The prevalence of hypertension is high and is increasing worldwide, whereas
the proportion of controlled hypertension is low. Purpose: To assess the comparative …

Background Printed educational materials are widely used dissemination strategies to
improve the quality of healthcare professionals' practice and patient health outcomes …

This systematic review applied meta-analytic procedures to synthesize medication
adherence interventions that focus on adults with hypertension. Comprehensive searching …

We carried out a genome-wide association study of type-2 diabetes (T2D) in individuals of
South Asian ancestry. Our discovery set included 5,561 individuals with T2D (cases) and …