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Cardiovascular risk factor profile of black Africans undergoing coronary angiography

Author(s) -

Charles G Kamotho,

EO Ogola,

M Joshi,

DK Gikonyo

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

east african medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102

H-Index - 40

ISSN - 0012-835X

DOI - 10.4314/eamj.v81i2.9130

Subject(s) - medicine , coronary artery disease , diabetes mellitus , retrospective cohort study , risk factor , population , prospective cohort study , incidence (geometry) , cardiology , left ventricular hypertrophy , interventricular septum , angiography , surgery , blood pressure , endocrinology , physics , environmental health , ventricle , optics

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a growing epidemic on the African continent. It remains uncertain whether the risk factors identified as contributing to CAD in white populations contribute to a similar extent to CAD incidence in black populations. No data of the local population exists that is based on the coronary angiogram (CA).

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