The Burden of Non-Communicable Disease in Transition Communities in an Asian Megacity: Baseline Findings from a Cohort Study in Karachi, Pakistan

• Faisal S. Khan ,

  * E-mail: faisal.khan@irdresearch.org

  Affiliations Indus Hospital Research Center, Korangi Crossing, Karachi, Pakistan, Interactive Research & Development, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Ismat Lotia-Farrukh,

  Affiliations Indus Hospital Research Center, Korangi Crossing, Karachi, Pakistan, Interactive Research & Development, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Aamir J. Khan,

  Affiliations Indus Hospital Research Center, Korangi Crossing, Karachi, Pakistan, Interactive Research & Development, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Saad Tariq Siddiqui,

  Affiliation Interactive Research & Development, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Sana Zehra Sajun,

  Affiliation Interactive Research & Development, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Amyn Abdul Malik,

  Affiliation Interactive Research & Development, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Aziza Burfat,

  Affiliation Interactive Research & Development, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Mohammad Hussham Arshad,

  Affiliation Interactive Research & Development, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Andrew J. Codlin,

  Affiliation Interactive Research & Development, Shahrah-e-Faisal, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Belinda M. Reininger,

  Affiliation University of Texas School of Public Health, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America

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• Joseph B. McCormick,

  Affiliation University of Texas School of Public Health, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America

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• Nadeem Afridi,

  Affiliation Association of Pakistani-Descent Cardiologists of North America, Wellington, Florida, United States of America

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• Susan P. Fisher-Hoch

  Affiliation University of Texas School of Public Health, Brownsville, Texas, United States of America

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