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The first coronary by-pass grafting surgery done in western and central Africa

Africa bears a significant proportion of the global burden of chronic diseases, along with poor countries of Asia and Latin America. The World Health Organisation projects that over the next ten years the Continent will experience the largest increase in death rates from cardiovascular disease, canc...

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Autores principales: Budzee, Appolonia, Ghidoni, Italo, Giamberti, Alessandro, Cirri, Silvia, Tantchou Tchoumi, Jacques Cabral, Ambassa, Jean Claude, Butera, Gianfranco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: African Field Epidemiology Network 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3201609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22121454
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author Budzee, Appolonia
Ghidoni, Italo
Giamberti, Alessandro
Cirri, Silvia
Tantchou Tchoumi, Jacques Cabral
Ambassa, Jean Claude
Butera, Gianfranco
author_facet Budzee, Appolonia
Ghidoni, Italo
Giamberti, Alessandro
Cirri, Silvia
Tantchou Tchoumi, Jacques Cabral
Ambassa, Jean Claude
Butera, Gianfranco
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description Africa bears a significant proportion of the global burden of chronic diseases, along with poor countries of Asia and Latin America. The World Health Organisation projects that over the next ten years the Continent will experience the largest increase in death rates from cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and diabetes. Probably for the first time in Western and Central Africa, the very first coronary artery bypass surgery grafting was performed in the Cardiac Centre of Shisong in Cameroon.
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spelling pubmed-32016092011-11-25 The first coronary by-pass grafting surgery done in western and central Africa Budzee, Appolonia Ghidoni, Italo Giamberti, Alessandro Cirri, Silvia Tantchou Tchoumi, Jacques Cabral Ambassa, Jean Claude Butera, Gianfranco Pan Afr Med J Letter to the Editors Africa bears a significant proportion of the global burden of chronic diseases, along with poor countries of Asia and Latin America. The World Health Organisation projects that over the next ten years the Continent will experience the largest increase in death rates from cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease and diabetes. Probably for the first time in Western and Central Africa, the very first coronary artery bypass surgery grafting was performed in the Cardiac Centre of Shisong in Cameroon. African Field Epidemiology Network 2011-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3201609/ /pubmed/22121454 Text en © Budzee Appolonia et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Letter to the Editors
Budzee, Appolonia
Ghidoni, Italo
Giamberti, Alessandro
Cirri, Silvia
Tantchou Tchoumi, Jacques Cabral
Ambassa, Jean Claude
Butera, Gianfranco
The first coronary by-pass grafting surgery done in western and central Africa
title The first coronary by-pass grafting surgery done in western and central Africa
title_full The first coronary by-pass grafting surgery done in western and central Africa
title_fullStr The first coronary by-pass grafting surgery done in western and central Africa
title_full_unstemmed The first coronary by-pass grafting surgery done in western and central Africa
title_short The first coronary by-pass grafting surgery done in western and central Africa
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3201609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22121454
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