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ReviewJournal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)2018

Fixed-dose combination therapy to reduce the growing burden of cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries: feasibility and challenges.

Jobert Richie Nansseu, Aurel T Tankeu, Joseph Kamtchum-Tatuene, Jean Jacques Noubiap

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Review in Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jobert Richie NansseuDepartment of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Aurel T TankeuDepartment of Internal Medicine and Specialties, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Joseph Kamtchum-TatueneBrain Infections Group, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Jean Jacques NoubiapDepartment of Medicine, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-7722-9757

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become a major concern in low- and middle-income countries, which bear about 80% of the cardiovascular mortality worldwide. Curbing the burden of CVD implies the management and control of many cardiovascular risk factors that act synergistically to increase cardiovascular mortality. Such actions may require expensive polymedications in a context of limited resources. Therefore, alternative solutions for CVD prevention in low- and middle-income countries are urgently needed. In this context, the concept of a fixed-dose combination therapy, a polypill composed of drugs known to effectively treat or prevent CVD, has been proposed as a scalable strategy to overcome nonadherence to polymedications and reduce costs. While this has recently been approved in more than 30 countries across America and Europe, there is a crucial need to analyze the potential benefits and challenges related to cardiovascular polypills implementation and vulgarization in low- and middle-income countries, the epicenter of CVD.

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Cardiovascular DiseasesAntihypertensive AgentsDeveloping CountriesDrug CombinationsHumansHypertensionPovertyPrimary PreventionRisk FactorsAntihypertensive AgentsDrug Combinationscardiovascular diseasefixed combinationlow- and middle-income countriespolypillsprevention

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PMID29316126
PMCPMC8031286

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