Agyemang Lab

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2017

Hypertension Susceptibility in African Migrants: Solving the puzzle through transcontinental prospective cohort study design

This study will be the first to identify the key environmental exposures, together with epigenetic factors, responsible for the increased burden of hypertension in migrants through establishment of a novel transcontinental prospective cohort study of a homogeneous Sub-Saharan African (SSA) migrants living in Europe and their compatriots living in Africa, alongside the European host population. Hypertension is the single most important modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, a global leading cause of death. Migrants, especially those with SSA origin, are disproportionately affected for reasons that are unclear due to lack of prospective studies. Moreover, migrant health research…

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