Cardiovascular disease in sub-Saharan Africa
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Cardiovascular disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
Open your eyes to Africa. It is big, complex and confounding,” says the British Medical Journal of October 1, 2005.1 It has some of world’s richest natural resources in minerals and oil. Yet 34 of the world’s 41 indebted poor countries are in Africa, and only 37% of Africa’s children attend secondary school. Africa, with one sixth of the world’s population, accounts for one fiftieth of the glob...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SA heart
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1996-6741', '2071-4602']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24170/18-2-4877