Clinical and socio demographic aspects of congestive heart failure patients at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-27

  Oyoo, G O ^a   Ogola, E N ^b  

^a SDA Health Services   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

KENYA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0032590149     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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