Heart Failure Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Callender, Thomas; Woodward, Mark; A. Roth, Gregory; Farzadfar, Farshad; Lemarié, J.; Gicquel, Stéphanie; Atherton, J.; Rahimzadeh, Shadi; Ghaziani, Mehdi; Shaikh, Maaz; Bennett, Derrick; Patel, Anushka; S.P. Lam, Carolyn; Sliwa, Karen; Carlos Pereira Barretto, Antônio; Budi Siswanto, Bambang; Díaz, Alejandro; Herpin, D; Krum, Henry; K Eliasz, Thomas; Forbes, Anna; Kiszely, Alastair; Khosla, Rajit; Petrinic, Tatjana; Praveen, Devarsetty; Shrivastava, Roohi; Du, Xin; MacMahon, Stephen; J.V. McMurray, John; Rahimi, Kazem

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001699

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Heart Failure Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Published in PLoS Medicine • Aug 12, 2014

Authors:

Thomas Callender

Mark Woodward

Gregory A. Roth

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Heart failure places a significant burden on patients and health systems in high-income countries. However, information about its burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is scant. We thus set out to review both published and unpublished information on the presentation, causes,...

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Medicine

Heart failure

Confidence interval

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