Data on the epidemiology of heart failure in Sub-Saharan Africa

In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), chronic non-communicable diseases and cardiovascular diseases in particular, are progressively taking over infectious diseases as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Heart failure is a major public health problem in the region. We summarize here available data...

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Autores principales: Nyaga, Ulrich Flore, Bigna, Jean Joel, Agbor, Valirie N., Essouma, Mickael, Ntusi, Ntobeko A.B., Noubiap, Jean Jacques
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Medicine and Dentistry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5988512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29876481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.100
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description In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), chronic non-communicable diseases and cardiovascular diseases in particular, are progressively taking over infectious diseases as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Heart failure is a major public health problem in the region. We summarize here available data on the prevalence, aetiologies, treatment, rates and predictors of mortality due to heart failure in SSA.
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spelling pubmed-59885122018-06-06 Data on the epidemiology of heart failure in Sub-Saharan Africa Nyaga, Ulrich Flore Bigna, Jean Joel Agbor, Valirie N. Essouma, Mickael Ntusi, Ntobeko A.B. Noubiap, Jean Jacques Data Brief Medicine and Dentistry In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), chronic non-communicable diseases and cardiovascular diseases in particular, are progressively taking over infectious diseases as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Heart failure is a major public health problem in the region. We summarize here available data on the prevalence, aetiologies, treatment, rates and predictors of mortality due to heart failure in SSA. Elsevier 2018-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5988512/ /pubmed/29876481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2018.01.100 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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