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It's Friday! Our bi-montly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba
Including African Americans in #genomicstudies can result in five times more accurate prediction of #disease risk in the #African population.
doi.org/10.1038/s41591-022-0…
The overall quality of available evidence on community-based arterial hypertension #aHT #care is low.
doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-1…
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Development and evaluation of a package to improve #hypertension control in #Nigeria
doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-0…
🗓 #savethedate We’ll be participating to the #webinar our partner @UPLLtd will be hosting tomorrow! We will discuss how our partnership has been improving communities’s cardiovascular health in #rural #cotedivoire Be there! #Africa #Sustainability
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It's Friday! Our bi-montly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba
Use of Traditional Medicine☘️ and control of hypertension 🩺: a cross-sectional study in 12 African countries. Just published in @GlobalHealthBMJ with
@rGayeBamba
dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-202…
Lower #COVID19 mortality among physically active individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa
doi.org/10.1016/j.pcad.2022.…
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#cancer mortality in sub-Saharan Africa could reach 1 million by 2030 without rapid interventions
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3555…
Our COO Virginie Gallardo and Dr. Sana Chatti, cardiovascular surgeon and member of our medical team, are in #Geneva all week end to attend the #WorldHeartSummit's exciting panel discussions @worldheartfed! #globalhealth #cardiovascularhealth #theheartfund
#WorldHypertensionDay Though some data from in-hospital or selected populations are available, there are very few studies reporting community-level prevalence of Severe Hypertension (SH) in sub-Saharan Africa
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THF will keep making every effort to screen, detect and and implement achievable solutions to tackle Hypertension and SH in particular.
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This high prevalence is still carried on... Follow our upcoming publications
doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchy.2019…
It's Friday! Our biweekly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba
Stressful life events, neighbourhood characteristics, and systolic blood pressure in #SouthAfrica 👇🏾
doi.org/10.1038/s41371-022-0…
The burden of #renal admissions in a tertiary #hospital in #SierraLeone👇🏾
doi.org/10.1186/s12882-022-0…
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Toward increasing #diversity in #genetic studies. "The distribution of ancestry data contained in the GWAS catalog for studies published from March 2005 to January 2022" only 0.7% specified as being from sub-Saharan #Africa 👇🏾
doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-0…
"When the Polyclinic N°7 where she had worked for 20 years was evacuated on March 5, there was no way Olena Doro gave up being a doctor and stayed home."
Read Dr. Doro's full story 👇and how you can support the #emergency #relief we are carrying out for #Ukrainian #doctors
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Our biweekly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba
Deaths from noncommunicable diseases #NCDs on the rise in #Africa (learn more👇🏾)
afro.who.int/news/deaths-non…
A concerning high prevalence of pre-hypertension and #hypertension among primary school learners (learn more 👇🏾)
doi.org/10.1186/s12887-022-0…
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#SouthSouth partnerships in #cardiovascular #research in Africa: empowering the next generation of cardiovascular researchers... (learn more👇🏾)
doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/eh…