Das, Hemanshu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0179-7491
Sachdeva, Ashish
Kumar, Harish http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-3215
Krishna, Ashish
Moran, Andrew E.
Pathni, Anupam K. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-0861
Sharma, Bhawna
Singh, Bhanu P.
Ranjan, Manish
Deo, Sarang
Funding for this research was provided by:
Resolve to Save Lives
Article History
Received: 20 December 2022
Revised: 1 April 2023
Accepted: 28 April 2023
First Online: 19 May 2023
Competing interests
: Dr Deo reports grants from Resolve to Save Lives for the conduct of the study. Mr Ranjan is the CEO and Founder of Nanocare Health Services, a digital health solution firm, and the implementing organization for the study. Drs. Krishna, Moran, Pathni, Sharma and Mr Singh report personal fees from Resolve to Save Lives during the conduct of the study. Resolve to Save Lives is funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gates Philanthropy Partners, which is funded with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation. Resolve to Save Lives is the international technical partner for India Hypertension Control Initiative, which is being implemented by Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and World Health Organization. Mr Das, Dr Sachdeva and Mr Kumar have nothing to disclose.
: The ethics approval for the implementation was received from the Institutional Review Board at KSN Hospital (Ara, India). The data analysis was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad, India) with protocol number ISB-IRB 2020-26.
: Patient and Public Involvement Subjects were not involved in the design of the study, and there are no specific plans of dissemination of the results of the study in the paper to the participants. The patients in the study were informed about the intent of use of anonymized data by the implementation agency.