ReviewCurrent cardiology reviews2013
Heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Prevalence and predictors of poor heart failure treatment outcomes in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Heart Failure Risk and Events in People With HIV: The Randomized Trial to Prevent Vascular Events in HIV (REPRIEVE).Circulation. Heart failure · 2026Trial
- Electrolyte disturbance profiles and associated factors in Somali patients with heart failure.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Review
- Implications for sustaining secondary prophylaxis for rheumatic heart disease in Ethiopia: Uptake and determinants in a multicentre cross-sectional study.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
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- Treatment outcome and associated factors of acute heart failure in East Africa, an Ethiopian perspective: A systematic review and meta-analysis.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2025Review
- Prevalence of anemia, its associated factors, and impact on quality of life among heart failure with reduced ejection fraction outpatients at the university of Gondar hospital, Ethiopia.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
- Determinants of readmission amongst hospitalized patients with heart failure in Ghana and Nigeria: a prospective cohort study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
- Primary Causes and Direct Medical Cost of Heart Failure Among Adults Admitted with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure in a Public Tertiary Hospital, Kenya.Global heart · 2025Article
- Health Data Sciences and Cardiovascular Disease in Africa: Needs and the Way Forward.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2024Review
- Characteristics of heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction in black South African patients.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2024Article
- Health-related quality of life and associated factors in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction patients at University of Gondar Hospital, Ethiopia.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Article
- The experience of people living with heart failure in Ethiopia: A qualitative descriptive study.PloS one · 2024Article
- Prevalence and risk factors of mortality among heart failure patients in low resource setting hospitals: a multicenter prospective observational study.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Article
- Heart failure drug classes and 30-day unplanned hospital readmission among patients with heart failure in Ethiopia.Journal of pharmaceutical health care and sciences · 2023Article
- Contemporary aetiology of acute heart failure in a teaching hospital in Ghana.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2023Article
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- HIV-Related Myocardial Fibrosis: Inflammatory Hypothesis and Crucial Role of Immune Cells Dysregulation.Cells · 2022Review
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Abstract
The heart failure syndrome has been recognized as a significant contributor to cardiovascular disease burden in sub-Saharan African for many decades. Seminal knowledge regarding heart failure in the region came from case reports and case series of the early 20th century which identified infectious, nutritional and idiopathic causes as the most common. With increasing urbanization, changes in lifestyle habits, and ageing of the population, the spectrum of causes of HF has also expanded resulting in a significant burden of both communicable and non-communicable etiologies. Heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa is notable for the range of etiologies that concurrently exist as well as the healthcare environment marked by limited resources, weak national healthcare systems and a paucity of national level data on disease trends. With the recent publication of the first and largest multinational prospective registry of acute heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa, it is timely to review the state of knowledge to date and describe the myriad forms of heart failure in the region. This review discusses several forms of heart failure that are common in sub-Saharan Africa (e.g., rheumatic heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, pericardial disease, various dilated cardiomyopathies, HIV cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, endomyocardial fibrosis, ischemic heart disease, cor pulmonale) and presents each form with regard to epidemiology, natural history, clinical characteristics, diagnostic considerations and therapies. Areas and approaches to fill the remaining gaps in knowledge are also offered herein highlighting the need for research that is driven by regional disease burden and needs.
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