aDepartment of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
bSchool of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
cDepartment of Noncommunicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
dRegional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
eCharité -Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universitaet Berlin, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Berlin, Germany
fMKPGMS -Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda
gDepartment of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal
hCharité -Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universitaet Berlin, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Berlin
iDepartment of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Charité Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Charite -Universitaetsmedizin Berlin
jDZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
kDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
lJulius Global Health, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
mDivision of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
nCenter for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
oDepartment of Clinical Chemistry, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
pDepartment of Community Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
qDepartment of Medicine, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana
Correspondence to: Charles Agyemang, Department of Public Health, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: +0031 20 5664885; fax: +0031 20 6972316; e-mail: [email protected]
Abbreviations: BP, blood pressure; CCB, calcium channel blockers; RAS, renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system; RODAM, Research on Obesity and Diabetes among African Migrants; SSA, Sub-Saharan African
Received 14 May, 2017
Revised 30 June, 2017
Accepted 17 July, 2017
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