Heart failure in sub-Saharan Africans is mainly due to non-ischaemic causes, such as
hypertension, rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathy and pericarditis. The two endemic …

The heart failure syndrome has been recognized as a significant contributor to
cardiovascular disease burden in sub-Saharan African for many decades. Seminal …

Tandem repeats (TRs) represent one of the largest sources of genetic variation in humans
and are implicated in a range of phenotypes. Here we present a deep characterization of TR …

A review of heart diseases in Africa shows that the cardiomyopathies continue to be
important causes of morbidity and mortality in the population. Hypertension remains the …

Background Heart failure (HF), the dominant form of cardiovascular disease in Africans, is
mainly due to hypertension, rheumatic heart disease and cardiomyopathy …

Background An interesting phenomenon is unfolding in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) due to
globalization and urbanization. The region traditionally plagued with infectious diseases is …

Background. Studies from Europe and North America suggest that 20-50% of patients with
dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) may have familial disease. There is little information on the …

Endomyocardial fibrosis is the most common restrictive cardiomyopathy observed world
wide. The disease occurs in its classical endemic form in the selected coastal belt in Kerala …

Methods Clinical features and management of Djiboutian children between 1 month-old and
15 year-old with CVD were prospectively recorded over a two-year period in Bouffard …

In this retrospective study, spanning from 1999 to 2020, we examined mortality trends
related to SICM (substance-induced cardiomyopathy) among individuals aged 75 and older …