Cardiovascular Disease in Children: The Future Is Now

Sebastiano A G Lava^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.
² Heart Failure and Transplantation, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London WC1N 3JH, UK.
³ Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Group, University College London, London WC1H 9JP, UK.
⁴ Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Institute of Pharmacological Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland.

Editorial

Sebastiano A G Lava. Children (Basel). 2023.

. 2023 May 15;10(5):886.

doi: 10.3390/children10050886.

Sebastiano A G Lava^{1

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¹ Pediatric Cardiology Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland.
² Heart Failure and Transplantation, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London WC1N 3JH, UK.
³ Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Group, University College London, London WC1H 9JP, UK.
⁴ Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Institute of Pharmacological Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland.

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide [...].

The author declares no conflict of interest with respect to this manuscript.

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