Cardiovascular disease in Africa: Epidemiological profile and challenges

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 273-293

  Keates, Ashley K ^a   Mocumbi, Ana O ^b   Ntsekhe, Mpiko ^c   Sliwa, Karen ^a,d   Stewart, Simon ^a,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAÚDE   (Mozambique)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

AFRICA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ETHNICITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MATERNAL WELFARE; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PHYSICAL INACTIVITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL STATUS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AFRICA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85013668703     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2017.19     Document Type: Review

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