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development. These results suggest that interventional strategies
and the use of medication targeted at effectively lowering blood
pressure may also lower the risk for adverse cardiovascular
events in black South Africans.
This work was financially supported by the SANPAD (South Africa–
Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development), PHRI
(Population Health Research Institute), Medical Research Council of
South Africa, South African National Research Foundation (NRF) (GUN
numbers 2069139 and FA2006040700010), North-West University and Roche
Diagnostics. Any opinion, findings and conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of the authors, and therefore the NRF do
not accept any liability in regard thereto.
The authors thank all supporting staff and the participants of the PURE
study and in particular:
PURE-South Africa: the PURE-NWP-SA research team, field workers
and office staff in the Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research
(AUTHeR) and the Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART), Faculty
of Health Sciences, North-West University, South Africa;
PURE International: Dr S Yusuf and the PURE project office staff at
the Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences and
McMaster University, ON, Canada.
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