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Global burden of cardiovascular disease
New insights on diabetes mellitus and obesity in Africa-Part 2: prevention, screening and economic burden

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  • Andre Pascal Kengne PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Eugene Sobngwi Department of Internal Medicine and Specialties, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, National Obesity Centre, Yaounde Central Hospital and University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Justin-Basile Echouffo-Tcheugui Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jean-Claude Mbanya Department of Internal Medicine and Specialties, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, National Obesity Centre, Yaounde Central Hospital and University of Yaoundé 1, Yaoundé, Cameroon University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Andre Pascal Kengne, National Collaborative Programme on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease, South African Medical Research Council, PO Box 19070 Tygerberg, Cape Town 7505, South Africa; andre.kengne{at}mrc.ac.za
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Kengne AP, Sobngwi E, Echouffo-Tcheugui J, et al
New insights on diabetes mellitus and obesity in Africa-Part 2: prevention, screening and economic burden
Heart 2013;99:1072-1077.

Publication history

  • Received February 1, 2013
  • Accepted February 25, 2013
  • First published May 16, 2013.
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September 24, 2016

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