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Etiology, characteristics and occurrence of heart diseases in rural Lesotho (ECHO-Lesotho): A retrospective echocardiography cohort study

BACKGROUND: In 2019, 600’000 people in Africa died of heart failure and heart diseases will increase on the continent. It is crucial to understand the regional etiologies and risk factors for heart failure and underlying heart diseases. However, echocardiography data from rural Africa are scarce and...

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Autores principales: Ndongala, Nzola John, Maepa, Callixtina, Nyondo, Emmanuel, Amstutz, Alain, du Reau de la Gaignonnière, Baptiste
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9754242/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36520796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278406