The challenge of addressing heart failure in low and middle-income countries

Søren Lund Kristensen¹, Anders Barasa^{2

3}, Jens Jakob Thune⁴

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¹ Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
² Department of Cardiology, Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ African Heart Failure Association/PASCAR, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Søren Lund Kristensen et al. Eur J Heart Fail. 2022 Sep.

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. 2022 Sep;24(9):1491-1492.

doi: 10.1002/ejhf.2598. Epub 2022 Jul 16.

Søren Lund Kristensen¹, Anders Barasa^{2

3}, Jens Jakob Thune⁴

¹ Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
² Department of Cardiology, Glostrup University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ African Heart Failure Association/PASCAR, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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