South Asian Heart Risk Assessment (SAHARA): Randomized Controlled Trial Design and Pilot Study

Zainab Samaan ^{1, 2, 3, 4}, MBChB, MSc, PhD, MRCPsych; Karleen M Schulze ², MMath; Catherine Middleton ⁵, PhD; Jane Irvine ⁶, DPhil, CPsych; Phillip Joseph ², MD; Andrew Mente ^{1, 2, 3}, PhD; Baiju R Shah ⁷, MD, PhD; Guillaume Pare ^{2, 3, 8}, MD, MSc; Dipika Desai ^{2, 3}, MSc; Sonia S Anand ^{1, 2, 3, 9}, MD, PhD, FRCPc; SAHARA Investigators ³

¹ Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics , McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CA

² Population Health Research Institute , McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON, CA

³ Population Genomics Program, Chanchlani Research Centre , McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CA

⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences , McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CA

⁵ Ryerson University , Toronto, ON, CA

⁶ York University , Toronto, ON, CA

⁷ Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Schulich Heart Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute , University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, CA

⁸ McMaster University, Pathology and Molecular Medicine , Hamilton, ON, CA

⁹ Department of Medicine , McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, CA

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