Challenges and Opportunities to Scale Up Cardiovascular Disease Secondary Prevention in Latin America and the Caribbean
Glob Heart
.
2018 Jun;13(2):83-91.
doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2017.05.002.
Epub 2017 Oct 9.
Authors
Álvaro Avezum
1
,
Pablo Perel
2
,
Gustavo B F Oliveira
3
,
Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo
4
,
Gustavo Restrepo
5
,
Fleetwood Loustalot
6
,
Andrea Srur
7
,
Reinaldo de La Noval
8
,
Kenneth I Connell
9
,
Salvador Cruz-Flores
10
,
Lenildo de Moura
11
,
Gabriela Castellac
12
,
Antonio C Mattos
3
,
Pedro Ordunez
11
Affiliations
1
Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: avezum@yahoo.com.
2
World Heart Federation, Geneva, Switzerland.
3
Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology, São Paulo, Brazil.
4
Latin American Society of Hypertension, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
5
Inter-American Society of Cardiology, Mexico City, Mexico.
6
Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Atlanta, GA, USA.
7
Ministry of Health, Chile, Santiago, Chile.
8
Ministry of Health, Havana, Cuba.
9
Caribbean Public Health Agency Hypertension Guidelines Committee, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
10
American Heart Association, Dallas, TX, USA.
11
Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC, USA.
12
Ministry of Health, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
PMID:
29032937
PMCID:
PMC8634896
DOI:
10.1016/j.gheart.2017.05.002
No abstract available
Publication types
Review
MeSH terms
Cardiovascular Diseases / ethnology
Cardiovascular Diseases / prevention & control*
Caribbean Region / epidemiology
Consensus*
Ethnicity*
Humans
Latin America / epidemiology
Secondary Prevention / methods*
Grants and funding
CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHS/United States