Impact of socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and urbanization on risk factor profiles of cardiovascular disease in Africa

Circulation

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1199-1208

  Sliwa, Karen ^a,b,c,h   Acquah, Letitia ^d   Gersh, Bernard J ^e   Mocumbi, Ana Olga ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^e Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Mozambique)

^g EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

cardiovascular diseases; epidemiology

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INVESTMENT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SOCIAL STATUS; TUBERCULOUS PERICARDITIS; URBANIZATION; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHOLESTEROL;

AFRICA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; COMORBIDITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84962324306     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.008730     Document Type: Article

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