Stroppa, Clara
Hunjan, Isabella
Umulisa, Alice
Irebe, Benitha
Parati, Gianfranco
Bianchetti, Mario G.
Muvunyi, Bienvenu
Ntaganda, Evariste
Sinabubaraga, Vincent
Radovanovic, Dragana
Lava, Sebastiano A. G. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8391-5462
Muggli, Franco
Funding for this research was provided by:
Swiss Society of Hypertension
SHK Stiftung für Herz und Kreislaufkrankheiten, Hergiswil Switzerland.
Article History
Received: 4 December 2023
Accepted: 22 January 2024
First Online: 12 February 2024
Declarations
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: Clara Stroppa, Isabella Hunjan, Alice Umulisa, Benitha Irebe, Gianfranco Parati, Mario G. Bianchetti, Bienvenu Muvunyi, Evariste Ntaganda, Vincent Sinabubaraga, Dragana Radovanovic, and Franco Muggli have nothing to disclose. Sebastiano A.G. Lava is the current recipient of research grants from Fonds de perfectionnement, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland; Fondation SICPA, Prilly, Switzerland; Fondazione Dr. Ettore Balli, Bellinzona, Switzerland; Fondazione per il bambino malato della Svizzera italiana, Bellinzona, Switzerland and Frieda Locher-Hofmann Stiftung, Zürich, Switzerland.
: The project was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki of 1964 and its later amendments. The project was approved by the Rwanda National Ethics Committee (RNEC) as “Study for better Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk Control in a rural area of the District of Nyaruguru” (RNEC Approval Nr 752/RNEC/2019). Written and verbal informed consent in Kinyarwanda, the national spoken language, was obtained from all participants.