Cardiovascular risk factor reduction by community health workers in rural India: A cluster randomized trial

There is a need to identify and test low-cost approaches for cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction that can enable health systems to achieve such a strategy. Community health workers (CHWs) are an integral part of health-care delivery system in lower income countries. Our aim was to assess impact of CHW based interventions in reducing CVD risk factors in rural households in India. We performed an open-label cluster-randomized trial in 28...