Gill, PS;
Calvert, M;
Davis, R;
Davies, MK;
Freemantle, N;
Lip, GY;
(2011)
Prevalence of heart failure and atrial fibrillation in minority ethnic subjects: the Ethnic-Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening Study (E-ECHOES).
PLOS One
, 6
(11)
, Article e26710. 10.1371/journal.pone.0026710.
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Abstract
Limited data exists on the prevalence of heart failure amongst minority groups in the UK. To document the community prevalence and severity of left ventricular systolic dysfunction, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation, amongst the South Asian and Black African-Caribbean groups in the UK.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Prevalence of heart failure and atrial fibrillation in minority ethnic subjects: the Ethnic-Echocardiographic Heart of England Screening Study (E-ECHOES). |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0026710 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026710 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2011 Gill et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This work was supported by the British Heart Foundation (PG/05/036), Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust, and through the National Health Service R&D support funding (Primary Care Research Network-Central England). Primary Care Clinical Sciences is a member of the NIHR National School for Primary Care Research. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. |
| Keywords: | Atrial Fibrillation, Electrocardiography, England, Ethnic Groups, Female, Heart Failure, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Minority Groups, Risk Factors, Ventricular Dysfunction, Left |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology > Comprehensive CTU at UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1332543 |
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