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, 2020, 'Task shifting to frontline community health workers for improved diabetes care in low-resource settings in India: a phase II non-randomized controlled clinical trial', Journal of Global Health Reports, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.29392/001c.17609
, 2020, 'Protecting Indian health workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic', JOURNAL OF FAMILY MEDICINE AND PRIMARY CARE, 9, pp. 4541 - 4546, http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_925_20
, 2020, 'Rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of the Salt Substitute in India Study (SSiIS): The protocol for a double-blinded, randomized-controlled trial', Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 22, pp. 1504 - 1512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jch.13947
, 2020, 'Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Pregnancy and Implications for Long-Term Health: Identifying the Research Priorities for Low-Resource Settings', Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2020.00040
, 2020, 'Feasibility of a Lifestyle Intervention Program for Prevention of Diabetes Among Women With Prior Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (LIVING Study) in South Asia: A Formative Research Study', Frontiers in Global Women S Health, 1, pp. 587607, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2020.587607
, 2019, 'Strategic, Successful, and Sustained Synergy: The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Hypertension Program', Global Heart, 14, pp. 391 - 394, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2019.09.003
, 2019, 'What do Accredited Social Health Activists need to provide comprehensive care that incorporates non-communicable diseases? Findings from a qualitative study in Andhra Pradesh, India', Human Resources for Health, 17, pp. 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-019-0418-9
, 2019, 'Association of Multifaceted Mobile Technology-Enabled Primary Care Intervention with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Management in Rural Indonesia', JAMA Cardiology, 4, pp. 978 - 986, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamacardio.2019.2974
, 2019, 'Barriers and Facilitators to the Use of Cardiovascular Fixed-Dose Combination Medication (Polypills) in Andhra Pradesh, India: A Mixed-Methods Study', Global Heart, 14, pp. 303 - 310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2019.07.002
, 2019, 'Women's and healthcare providers’ perceptions of long-term complications associated with hypertension and diabetes in pregnancy: a qualitative study', BJOG an International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 126, pp. 34 - 42, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1471-0528.15847
, 2019, 'Combatting the Global Crisis of Cardiovascular Disease', Heart Lung and Circulation, 28, pp. 981 - 983, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2019.05.001
, 2019, 'The development of an Android platform to undertake a discrete choice experiment in a low resource setting', Archives of Public Health, 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-019-0346-0
, 2019, 'Cardiovascular disease risk factor prevalence and estimated 10-year cardiovascular risk scores in Indonesia: The SMARThealth Extend study', Plos One, 14, pp. e0215219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215219
, 2019, 'The role of context in implementation research for non-communicable diseases: Answering the 'how-to' dilemma', Plos One, 14, pp. e0214454, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214454
, 2019, 'Smarthealth India: A stepped-wedge, cluster randomised controlled trial of a community health worker managed mobile health intervention for people assessed at high cardiovascular disease risk in rural India', Plos One, 14, pp. e0213708, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213708
, 2019, 'A lifestyle intervention programme for the prevention of Type 2 diabetes mellitus among South Asian women with gestational diabetes mellitus [LIVING study]: protocol for a randomized trial', Diabetic Medicine, 36, pp. 243 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dme.13850
, 2019, 'Lifestyle intervention programme for Indian women with history of gestational diabetes mellitus', Global Health Epidemiology and Genomics, 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gheg.2018.18
, 2019, 'Process evaluation in the field: Global learnings from seven implementation research hypertension projects in low-and middle-income countries', BMC Public Health, 19, pp. 953, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7261-8
, 2018, 'Cardiovascular disease risk and comparison of different strategies for blood pressure management in rural India', BMC Public Health, 18, pp. 1264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-6142-x
, 2018, 'Task-shifting for cardiovascular risk factor management: lessons from the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases', BMJ Global Health, 3, pp. e001092, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001092
, 2018, 'Current status and future directions of mhealth interventions for health system strengthening in India: Systematic review', Jmir Mhealth and Uhealth, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/11440
, 2018, 'Gaps in guidelines for the management of diabetes in low- and middle-income versus high-income countriesda systematic review', Diabetes Care, 41, pp. 1097 - 1105, http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/dc17-1795
, 2018, 'A mixed methods evaluation of yoga as a fall prevention strategy for older people in India', Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 4, pp. 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0264-x
, 2017, 'Effectiveness of community health worker training programmes for cardiovascular disease management in low-income and middle-income countries: A systematic review', BMJ Open, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015529
, 2017, 'Implementing the PHMRC shortened questionnaire: Survey duration of open and closed questions in three sites', Plos One, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178085
, 2017, 'Conversion of gestational diabetes mellitus to future Type 2 diabetes mellitus and the predictive value of HbA1c in an Indian cohort', Diabetic Medicine, 34, pp. 37 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dme.13102
, 2017, 'Mean population salt consumption in India: A systematic review', Journal of Hypertension, 35, pp. 3 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/HJH.0000000000001141
, 2017, 'Developing consensus measures for global programs: lessons from the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Hypertension research program', Globalization and health, 13, pp. 17 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12992-017-0242-8
, 2017, 'Innovative approaches to hypertension control in low-and middle-income countries', Cardiology clinics, 35, pp. 99 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccl.2016.08.010
, 2016, 'Prevalence of dysglycaemia in rural Andhra Pradesh: 2005, 2010, and 2014', Journal of Diabetes, 8, pp. 816 - 823, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-0407.12362
, 2016, 'The paradox of verbal autopsy in cause of death assignment: Symptom question unreliability but predictive accuracy', Population Health Metrics, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-016-0104-2
, 2016, 'What is the optimal recall period for verbal autopsies? Validation study based on repeat interviews in three populations', Population Health Metrics, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-016-0105-1
, 2016, 'The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Supports 15 Major Studies in Hypertension Prevention and Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries', Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 18, pp. 600 - 605, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jch.12835
, 2015, 'A shortened verbal autopsy instrument for use in routine mortality surveillance systems', BMC Medicine, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0528-8
, 2015, 'Improving performance of the Tariff Method for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies', BMC Medicine, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0527-9
, 2015, 'Behaviour change strategies for reducing blood pressure-related disease burden: Findings from a global implementation research programme', Implementation Science, 10, pp. 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13012-015-0331-0
, 2015, 'Implications of cardiovascular disease risk assessment using the WHO/ISH risk prediction charts in rural India', Plos One, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133618
, 2015, 'How much does a verbal autopsy based mortality surveillance system cost in rural India?', Plos One, 10, pp. e0126410, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126410
, 2015, 'Engineering a mobile health tool for resource-poor settings to assess and manage cardiovascular disease risk: SMARThealth study', BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-015-0148-4
, 2015, 'Suicide deaths in rural Andhra Pradesh - a cause for global health action', Tropical Medicine and International Health, 20, pp. 188 - 193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tmi.12416
, 2015, 'Heart failure care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis', PLoS Medicine, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001699
, 2015, 'Systematic Medical Appraisal, Referral and Treatment (SMART) Mental Health Programme for providing innovative mental health care in rural communities in India', Cambridge Prisms Global Mental Health, 2, pp. e13 - e13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2015.11
, 2014, 'Use of mHealth Systems and Tools for Non-Communicable Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: a Systematic Review', Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research, 7, pp. 677 - 691, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12265-014-9581-5
, 2014, 'SMARTHealth India: Development and field evaluation of a mobile clinical decision support system for cardiovascular diseases in rural India', Jmir Mhealth and Uhealth, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mhealth.3568
, 2014, 'Comparability of HbA1c and lipids measured with dried blood spot versus venous samples: A systematic review and meta-analysis', BMC Clinical Pathology, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6890-14-21
, 2014, 'Salt intake assessed by 24 h urinary sodium excretion in a random and opportunistic sample in Australia', BMJ Open, 4, pp. e003720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003720
, 2014, 'Using verbal autopsy to measure causes of death: The comparative performance of existing methods', BMC Medicine, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-12-5
, 2014, 'Protocol for developing the evidence base for a national salt reduction programme for India', BMJ Open, 4, pp. e005561, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006629
, 2013, 'A multifaceted strategy using mobile technology to assist rural primary healthcare doctors and frontline health workers in cardiovascular disease risk management: Protocol for the SMARTHealth India cluster randomised controlled trial', Implementation Science, 8, pp. 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-8-137
, 2012, 'Study protocol: Systematic review of the burden of heart failure in low- and middle-income countries', Systematic Reviews, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-1-59