Persistence while researching the Parsi community pays dividends
Dr Hitakshi Sehgal
"Research is fundamental to understanding health and diseases patterns, cause, treatment, and cure,” writes Dr Hitakshi Sehgal narrating her experiences on collecting data on blood pressure findings in the Parsi community. She wants to investigate whether there is a correlation between the readings and the residential environment. Her study is titled "Single Ethnicity Study on High blood pressure and Local Neighborhoods (SESHLoNe).”
"The role of the environment in health and disease of populations is most significant and yet underplayed. Our environment is not just to air, water, and soil. It is everything around us, including the social and cultural influences......