To fast or not to fast: Lipid measurement and cardiovascular disease risk estimation in rural sub-Saharan Africa

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality are increasing in sub-Saharan Africa (sSA), highlighting the need for tools to enable CVD risk stratification in the region. Although non-HDL-cholesterol (nHDL-C) has been promoted as a method to measure lipids without a requirement fo...

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Autores principales: Yang, Isabelle T, Hemphill, Linda C, Kim, June-Ho, Bibangambah, Prossy, Sentongo, Ruth, Kakuhire, Bernard, Plutzky, Jorge, Boum, Yap, Tsai, Alexander C, Okello, Samson, Siedner, Mark J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Society of Global Health 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7101029/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32257155
http://dx.doi.org/10.7189/jogh.10.010407

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