“Emerging evidence showed that Indians were more susceptible to stroke than their Western counterparts. “Higher incidence calls for genetic and epidemiological studies to study risk factors and devise preventive strategies,”
Shri Jaipal Reddy,
Honorable Minister of Science and Technology
Govt. of India

“The cohort study was a platform to strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries.”
Prof. K Vijayraghawan,
Secretary Department of Biotechnology
Govt. of India

“We will be happy to provide our knowledge and experience gained in the Rotterdam Study with the intended population study at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Sharing protocols will allow us to pool all the data and obtain comparisons between populations of different ethnicity, and to produce even more meaningful results due to the larger numbers of participants.”
Prof. Gabriel P Krestin,
Erasmus MC The Netherlands