Christian Ekholose Omoaghe, Henry Ifeanyichukwu Okolie, Ayoola Yekeen, Adamu Adamu, Ejeagba Okezie
BACKGROUND: Heart disease in the developing world is mainly due to nonischemic causes-hypertensive heart disease, valvular and myocardial damage from rheumatic fever, and heart muscle diseases caused by certain infectious agents, for example, cardiomyopathy from HIV infection. Peripartum cardiomyopathy is also a well-recognized cause of heart disease in developing countries. However, there is evidence of epidemiological transition toward the increasing prevalence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in Sub-Saharan Africa largely because of the increasing prevalence of traditional risk factors, such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, obesity, and cigarette smoking...
2020: Nigerian Medical Journal: Journal of the Nigeria Medical Association