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A1 Jamerson KA, Agodoa L
T1 Hypertension as an emerging risk factor for acute heart failure in africa: Comment on “the causes, treatment, and outcome of acute heart failure in 1006 africans from 9 countries”
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD October 8
VO 172
IS 18
SP 1395
OP 1396
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.4491
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.4491
AB 
The authors of the Sub-Saharan Africa Survey of Heart Failure (THESUS-HF) trial characterized the causes and short-term outcomes in 1006 Africans with heart failure from 9 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The cohort is young (in the fifth to sixth decades of life), and hypertension is the most common cause of their heart failure, without severely reduced systolic function (average ejection fraction of 37%). This pattern of disease has striking parallels with US black patients of African descent. Thus, the work may have global implications for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.