Heart Failure in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America: The INTER-CHF study

Dokainish H 1 , Teo K 2 , Zhu J 3 , Roy A 4 , AlHabib KF 5 , ElSayed A 6 Show all authors , Palileo-Villaneuva L 7 , Lopez-Jaramillo P 8 , Karaye K 9 , Yusoff K 10 , Orlandini A 11 , Sliwa K 12 , Mondo C 13 , Lanas F 14 , Prabhakaran D 15 , Badr A 16 , Elmaghawry M 17 , Damasceno A 18 , Tibazarwa K 19 , Belley-Cote E 2 , Balasubramanian K 2 , Yacoub MH 20 , Huffman MD 21 , Harkness K 2 , Grinvalds A 2 , McKelvie R 2 , Yusuf S 2 , INTER-CHF Investigators

Affiliations 

  • 1 Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Electronic address: hisham.dokainish@phri.ca
  • 2 Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
  • 3 Cardiovascular Institute and Fuwai Hospital, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China; Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
  • 4 All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India
  • 5 King Fahad Cardiac Center, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 6 AlShaab Teaching Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan
  • 7 University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
  • 8 Fundacion Oftalmologica de Santander, (FOSCAL) and Medical School, Universidad de Santander (UDES), Bucaramanga, Colombia
  • 9 Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria; Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria
  • 10 UiTM Selayang, Selangor University, Cheras, Malaysia; UCSI University, Cheras, Malaysia
  • 11 ECLA Foundation, Instituto Cardiovascular de Rosario, Argentina
  • 12 Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa, SAMRC, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • 13 Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda
  • 14 Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile
  • 15 Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India
  • 16 Hamad Medical Center, Doha, Qatar
  • 17 Aswan Heart Centre, Aswan, Egypt
  • 18 Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
  • 19 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
  • 20 Hamad Medical Center, Doha, Qatar; Aswan Heart Centre, Aswan, Egypt
  • 21 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
Int J Cardiol, 2016 Feb 1;204:133-41.
PMID: 26657608 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.11.183

Abstract

There are few data on heart failure (HF) patients from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America.

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