Journal article
Endemic cardiovascular diseases of the poorest billion
- Abstract:
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The poorest billion people are distributed throughout the world, though most are concentrated in rural sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) data can be sparse in low- and middle-income countries beyond urban centers. Despite this urban bias, CVD registries from the poorest countries have long revealed a predominance of nonatherosclerotic stroke, hypertensive heart disease, nonischemic and Chagas cardiomyopathies, rheumatic heart disease, and congenital heart anomali...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Leona M and Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Heart Association Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Circulation Journal website
- Volume:
- 133
- Issue:
- 24
- Pages:
- 2561-2575
- Publication date:
- 2016-06-14
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1524-4539
- ISSN:
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0009-7322
- Source identifiers:
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638749
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- pubs:638749
- Deposit date:
- 2016-08-16
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- American Heart Association, Inc
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2016 American Heart Association, Inc.
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