COBRA came before

These latest findings on the Triple Pill are built on a firm foundation of extensive interventions carried out using primary healthcare workers to improve blood pressure (BP) control in rural communities.

The Control of Blood Pressure and Risk Attenuation – Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka (COBRA-BPS), was a community-based threeyear research study conducted by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, in collaboration with centres of excellence in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The study focused on the efficacy of an intervention delivered door-to-door by trained public health midwives to improve BP control in rural Puttalam.

The results that a low-cost, intervention comprising home visits by community healthcare workers to monitor BP and provide lifestyle coaching, coupled with physician training and coordination with existing public health care were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.

The Sunday Times on October 14, 2018, in an exclusive piece headlined ‘A closer look at COBRA’ reported this study.