The spectrum of heart disease among adults at the Bamenda Regional Hospital, North west Cameroon: a semi urban setting

OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the spectrum of heart diseases among adult patients at the Bamenda Regional Hospital in the North West Region of Cameroon. This is a chart review of echocardiographic records. RESULTS: In total, 673 records were included in our study, of which 506 had a definite hea...

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Autores principales: Akono, Manuel Ndo, Simo, Larissa Pone, Agbor, Valirie Ndip, Njoyo, Sylvain Laah, Mbanya, Dora
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6873567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31752960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4803-1
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author Akono, Manuel Ndo
Simo, Larissa Pone
Agbor, Valirie Ndip
Njoyo, Sylvain Laah
Mbanya, Dora
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Simo, Larissa Pone
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description OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the spectrum of heart diseases among adult patients at the Bamenda Regional Hospital in the North West Region of Cameroon. This is a chart review of echocardiographic records. RESULTS: In total, 673 records were included in our study, of which 506 had a definite heart disease. Of the 506, 93 had mixed cardiopathies. Their ages ranged from 18 to 105 years with a median age of 64.0 (Interquartile range = 47–75) years. Females accounted for a greater proportion (55.3%) of the study population. The most common echocardiographic diagnoses were hypertensive heart disease (41.1%), valvular heart disease (22.3%) and cardiomyopathies (11.4%). The prevalence of heart failure was 17.5%, with hypertensive heart disease being the leading cause.
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spelling pubmed-68735672019-11-25 The spectrum of heart disease among adults at the Bamenda Regional Hospital, North west Cameroon: a semi urban setting Akono, Manuel Ndo Simo, Larissa Pone Agbor, Valirie Ndip Njoyo, Sylvain Laah Mbanya, Dora BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the spectrum of heart diseases among adult patients at the Bamenda Regional Hospital in the North West Region of Cameroon. This is a chart review of echocardiographic records. RESULTS: In total, 673 records were included in our study, of which 506 had a definite heart disease. Of the 506, 93 had mixed cardiopathies. Their ages ranged from 18 to 105 years with a median age of 64.0 (Interquartile range = 47–75) years. Females accounted for a greater proportion (55.3%) of the study population. The most common echocardiographic diagnoses were hypertensive heart disease (41.1%), valvular heart disease (22.3%) and cardiomyopathies (11.4%). The prevalence of heart failure was 17.5%, with hypertensive heart disease being the leading cause. BioMed Central 2019-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6873567/ /pubmed/31752960 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4803-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Akono, Manuel Ndo
Simo, Larissa Pone
Agbor, Valirie Ndip
Njoyo, Sylvain Laah
Mbanya, Dora
The spectrum of heart disease among adults at the Bamenda Regional Hospital, North west Cameroon: a semi urban setting
title The spectrum of heart disease among adults at the Bamenda Regional Hospital, North west Cameroon: a semi urban setting
title_full The spectrum of heart disease among adults at the Bamenda Regional Hospital, North west Cameroon: a semi urban setting
title_fullStr The spectrum of heart disease among adults at the Bamenda Regional Hospital, North west Cameroon: a semi urban setting
title_full_unstemmed The spectrum of heart disease among adults at the Bamenda Regional Hospital, North west Cameroon: a semi urban setting
title_short The spectrum of heart disease among adults at the Bamenda Regional Hospital, North west Cameroon: a semi urban setting
title_sort spectrum of heart disease among adults at the bamenda regional hospital, north west cameroon: a semi urban setting
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6873567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31752960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4803-1
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