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Does a multicomponent intervention centered on proactive home visits reduce blood pressure compared to usual care in adults with hypertension in rural South Asia?
Does a multicomponent intervention centered on proactive home visits reduce blood pressure compared to usual care in adults with hypertension in rural South Asia?
A multicomponent intervention utilizing trained community health workers for proactive home visits effectively lowers blood pressure in rural South Asian populations compared to usual care.
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Supports scaling community health worker-led interventions for hypertension in rural South Asia; extends RCT evidence to low-resource settings.
In rural communities in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, a multicomponent intervention that was centered on proactive home visits by trained government community health workers who were linked with existing public health care infrastructure led to a greater reduction in blood pressure than usual care among adults with hypertension. (Funded by the Joint Global Health Trials scheme; COBRA-BPS ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02657746.).
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