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Journal articles
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, 'Current Status and Future Directions of mHealth Interventions for Health System Strengthening in India: Systematic Review (Preprint)', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.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 HbA
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. e006629, 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
,2012, 'Determinants of inhalant (Whitener) use among street children in a south indian city', Substance Use and Misuse, 47, pp. 1143 - 1150, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10826084.2011.644844
,2011, 'Effects on the estimated cause-specific mortality fraction of providing physician reviewers with different formats of verbal autopsy data', Population Health Metrics, 9, pp. 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-33
,2011, 'Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: Design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets', Population Health Metrics, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-27
,Conference Abstracts
2021, 'SMARThealth pregnancy: the development & evaluation of a complex intervention for pregnant women at high risk of future cardiometabolic disorders in rural India', in BJOG-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY, WILEY, Vol. 128, pp. E33 - E33, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000661537800034&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,Preprints
2024, Rationale, Design, and Intervention Development of a Mobile Health–Led Primary Care Program for Management of Type 2 Diabetes in Rural Thailand: Protocol for a SMARThealth Diabetes Study (Preprint), http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.59266
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