Heart failure-the importance of ethnicity
| Autor: | Michael D. Sosin, Russell C. Davis, Gurbir Bhatia, Gregory Y.H. Lip |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology Decision Making Ethnic group Health Services Accessibility Risk Factors Diabetes mellitus Epidemiology medicine Humans Western world Disease management (health) Intensive care medicine Heart Failure Clinical Trials as Topic business.industry Public health Disease Management Cardiovascular Agents medicine.disease United States Europe Heart failure Etiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Forecasting |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Heart Failure. 6:831-843 |
| ISSN: | 1388-9842 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejheart.2003.11.019 |
| Popis: | Heart failure is a major public health problem in the Western world. Aetiological factors involved in its development include hypertension, diabetes, and ischaemic heart disease--all of which differ in prevalence, and possibly mechanism, between patients of differing ethnicity. Unfortunately, epidemiological and therapeutic trials have involved almost exclusively white populations, and evidence from these trials cannot necessarily be assumed to be generalisable to populations that include high proportions of patients from other ethnic origins. This review will discuss the mechanistic and therapeutic differences that exist in heart failure between those of European origin, and patients from the major ethnic minority groups of the UK. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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