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Economic Burden of Heart Failure: Investigating Outpatient and Inpatient Costs in Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria
Background: Heart failure (HF) is a deadly, disabling and often costly syndrome world-wide. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of data describing its economic impact in sub Saharan Africa; a region in which the number of relatively younger cases will inevitably rise. Methods: Heath economic data were...
Autores principales: | Ogah, Okechukwu S., Stewart, Simon, Onwujekwe, Obinna E., Falase, Ayodele O., Adebayo, Saheed O., Olunuga, Taiwo, Sliwa, Karen |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240551/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25415310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0113032 |
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