PMID- 32923353
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210705
LR  - 20210705
IS  - 2211-8179 (Electronic)
IS  - 2211-8160 (Print)
IS  - 2211-8160 (Linking)
VI  - 15
IP  - 1
DP  - 2020 Sep 1
TI  - Neglected Tropical Diseases and Other Infectious Diseases Affecting the Heart. 
      The NET-Heart Project: Rationale and Design.
PG  - 60
LID - 10.5334/gh.867 [doi]
LID - 60
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of infections that 
      are prevalent in many of the tropical and sub-tropical developing countries where 
      poverty is rampant. NTDs have remained largely unnoticed in the global health 
      agenda. There is a substantial gap between the burden of disease for NTDs in 
      cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and research devoted to the affected populations. 
      We created a Latin-American initiative with emerging leaders (EL) from the 
      Interamerican Society of Cardiology (IASC) with the objective to perform multiple 
      systematic reviews of NTDs and other infectious diseases affecting the heart: The 
      NET-Heart Project. OBJECTIVE: To describe the rationale and design considerations 
      of the NET-Heart project. METHODS: The NET-Heart Project is a collaborative work 
      of the IASC EL program. The main objective of the NET-Heart project is to 
      systematically evaluate the available evidence of NTDs and other infectious 
      diseases and their cardiovascular involvement. As a secondary objective, this 
      initiative aims to offer recommendations and potential diagnostic and therapeutic 
      algorithms that can aid the management of cardiovascular complications of these 
      infectious diseases. After an expert discussion 17 initial infectious diseases 
      were selected, for each disease we created one working group. The project was 
      structured in different phases: Systematic review, brainstorming workshops, 
      analysis and results, manuscript writing and recommendations and evaluation of 
      clinical implications. CONCLUSION: The NET-Heart project is an innovative 
      collaborative initiative created to assess burden and impact of NTDs and other 
      infectious diseases in CVD. NTDs can no longer be ignored and must be prioritised 
      on the health and research agenda. This project aims to review in depth the 
      evidence regarding cardiac compromise of these serious conditions and to propose 
      strategies to overcome barriers for efficient diagnosis and treatment of 
      cardiovascular complications.
CI  - Copyright: (c) 2020 The Author(s).
FAU - Burgos, Lucrecia M
AU  - Burgos LM
AD  - Department of Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension and Heart Transplant, 
      Instituto Cardiovascular de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, AR.
FAU - Farina, Juan
AU  - Farina J
AD  - Division of Cardiology, Clinica Olivos, Buenos Aires, AR.
FAU - Liendro, Macarena Cousirat
AU  - Liendro MC
AD  - Division of Cardiology, Hospital General de Agudos Carlos G. Durand, Buenos 
      Aires, AR.
FAU - Saldarriaga, Clara
AU  - Saldarriaga C
AD  - Department of Cardiology and Heart Failure Clinic, Cardiovascular Clinic Santa 
      Maria, University of Antioquia, Medellin, CO.
FAU - Liprandi, Alvaro Sosa
AU  - Liprandi AS
AD  - Department of Cardiology, Sanatorio Guemes, Buenos Aires, AR.
FAU - Wyss, Fernando
AU  - Wyss F
AD  - Technology and Cardiovascular Service of Guatemala - Cardiosolutions, Guatemala 
      City, GT.
FAU - Mendoza, Ivan
AU  - Mendoza I
AD  - Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Caracas, VE.
FAU - Baranchuk, Adrian
AU  - Baranchuk A
AD  - Division of Cardiology, Kingston Health Science Center, Queen's University, 
      Kingston, Ontario, CA.
CN  - Neglected Tropical Diseases and other Infectious Diseases affecting the Heart 
      (NET-Heart project)
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
DEP - 20200901
PL  - England
TA  - Glob Heart
JT  - Global heart
JID - 101584391
SB  - IM
MH  - Communicable Diseases/complications/economics/*epidemiology
MH  - Global Health
MH  - Heart Diseases/epidemiology/*etiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Incidence
MH  - Poverty
MH  - *Tropical Medicine
PMC - PMC7473196
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - cardiovascular disease
OT  - global health
OT  - neglected tropical diseases
COIS- The authors have no competing interests to declare.
EDAT- 2020/09/15 06:00
MHDA- 2021/07/06 06:00
PMCR- 2020/09/01
CRDT- 2020/09/14 05:54
PHST- 2020/09/14 05:54 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/09/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/07/06 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.5334/gh.867 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Glob Heart. 2020 Sep 1;15(1):60. doi: 10.5334/gh.867.