TY  - JOUR
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”
AU  - Jamerson KA, Agodoa L
Y1  - 2012/10/08
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.4491
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1395
EP  - 1396
VL  - 172
IS  - 18
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.4491
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.4491
ER  -