PMID- 28838969
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20171226
LR  - 20180124
IS  - 1468-2044 (Electronic)
IS  - 0003-9888 (Linking)
VI  - 103
IP  - 1
DP  - 2018 Jan
TI  - Acquired heart disease in low-income and middle-income countries.
PG  - 73-77
LID - 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312521 [doi]
AB  - The burden of illness associated with acquired cardiac disease in children in 
      low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC) is significant and may be 
      equivalent to that of congenital heart disease. Rheumatic heart disease, 
      endomyocardial fibrosis, cardiomyopathy (including HIV cardiomyopathy) and 
      tuberculosis are the most important causes. All are associated with poverty with 
      the neediest children having the least access to care. The associated mortality 
      and morbidity is high. There is an urgent need to improve cardiac care in LMIC, 
      particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Southeast Asia where the burden 
      is highest.
CI  - (c) Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of 
      the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless 
      otherwise expressly granted.
FAU - Curry, Chris
AU  - Curry C
AD  - Centre for Medical Education, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical 
      Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.
FAU - Zuhlke, Liesl
AU  - Zuhlke L
AD  - Cardiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
FAU - Mocumbi, Ana
AU  - Mocumbi A
AD  - Cardiology, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique.
FAU - Kennedy, Neil
AU  - Kennedy N
AD  - Centre for Medical Education, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical 
      Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20170824
PL  - England
TA  - Arch Dis Child
JT  - Archives of disease in childhood
JID - 0372434
SB  - IM
MH  - Child
MH  - *Cost of Illness
MH  - Developing Countries
MH  - Heart Diseases/*epidemiology/etiology/therapy
MH  - Humans
MH  - Poverty
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - cardiology
OT  - tropical paediatrics
COIS- Competing interests: None declared.
EDAT- 2017/08/26 06:00
MHDA- 2017/12/27 06:00
CRDT- 2017/08/26 06:00
PHST- 2017/04/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/08/05 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/08/13 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/08/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/12/27 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/08/26 06:00 [entrez]
AID - archdischild-2016-312521 [pii]
AID - 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312521 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arch Dis Child. 2018 Jan;103(1):73-77. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312521. 
      Epub 2017 Aug 24.