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Ischaemic heart disease in Africa. How common is it? Will it become more common?
The Cardiac Clinic, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, South Africa
Correspondence to:
Dr Patrick Commerford, E17 Cardiac Clinic, Groote Schuur Hospital Cardiac, Observatory, South Africa, 7925; patrick.commerford@uct.ac.za
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Reliable statistics on health, life-expectancy and disease incidence in Africa are not readily available. The WHO 2007 report ranks the quality of cause-of-death information for most of Africa as low or non-existent. In this regard, Africa does not compare well to the rest of the world, and for much of Africa there is no information.1 2 The poor quality of the available information renders definitive comment and prediction problematic.
The publication of the landmark global burden of disease report in 1996 drew attention to the potential impact of degenerative cardiovascular diseases as causes of future morbidity and mortality in developing countries.3 Since then, there has been considerable speculation and discussion about the impact of the epidemiological transition on the health and healthcare needs of the people of Africa. In this issue, Dr George Mensah4 reviews the historical evidence for the rarity of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in Africa, the factors considered
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