The article first appeared in The Time of India on January 21, 2024
Two Indian American physicians who noticed that the incidence of heart disease and type 2 diabetes was higher among their family and friends decided to launch a study called MASALA (Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America) to get to the bottom of this risk pattern. The Mumbai-born Dr Alka Kanaya, founding principal investigator of the study and Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco, shares some insights with Ketaki Desai